Creating a Gap Offset on a Splice Zone

This task shows you how to create a gap offset on either a no splice zone or a butt splice zone.
This is useful when, as a design engineer, you have defined a butt splice zone or a no splice zone
that does not take into account the manufacturing tolerance; or when you need to rework a butt splice zone
or a no splice zone after having synchronized the Engineering and the Manufacturing parts.
  •  Gap Offset:
    • Creates the offset curves that take the manufacturing tolerance into account,
    • Deletes the current butt splice zone or no splice zone,
    • Recreates the butt splice zone or no splice zone from the offset curves,
    • Keeps the associativity.
Available in Composites Engineering Design (CPE) and Composites Design for Manufacturing (CPM).
Open the CATPART document that contains butt splice zones or No Splice Zone.

  1. Click Gap Offset in the Splicing toolbar.
    The Gap Offset dialog box is displayed.

  2. Select the butt splice zones or no splice zone to process.
    Multi-selection is available.
    The Gap Offset will be applied to the whole selection.

  3. Key in the value of the curves offset.

  4. Select an Offset Parallel Mode from the list:

  5. Click OK. All the selected splice zones are extended by the value of the offset defined.
    In our example below:
    • We have selected the butt splice zone corresponding to the purple contour (Contour.5).
    • At OK, the Contour.5 is hidden.
    • Tthe offset (30mm) is applied to the curves of Contour.5.
    • A new butt splice contour (Gap offset.5 shown in orange) is created from the offset curves.

  6. If required, double-click a Gap offset.x to edit it.
    Only Offset Value and Offset Parallel Mode are proposed in the dialog box that appears.