Sheet Metal Plate

Menu: Top3D > Foglio lamiera...

  • What

Draws a sheet metal plate.

  • Why


Draws a sheet metal plate for the creation of _____ or ____ .


  • How


Launched the command


The command let's you draw a rectangular metal plate to usually use for the creation of _____ in layout or carpentry drawings.

The commands asks to identify the base rectangle indicating the two main dimensions.


During the dragging phases the metal plate is drawn with zero thickness and translucent to ease the pose point selection.

Once the second point has been identified the metal plate is drawn using the program's current thickness and the transparency deleted. At this point the programme waits for an user choice. The possible options are:



Quit/Confirm

The metal plate is made as confirmed.



Dynamic

The metal plate thickness is requested in a dynamic way


Config

With this option the metal plate's configuration dialog is showed where the user can decide the material, the thickness and if the part has to be made or not.


It is possible to set the options as current as well.

Reposition

With this option the command asks to rearrange the metal plate. This option can be useful to “retrace” an existing metalplate and then arrange them in the final point.

Material

The command uses the TOP metal plates materials list and it sets the material attribute as indicated. If in the drawing exists an aspect/material with the same name it is set automatically.


Part name

The metal plate part's name is made following a defined model in the TOPX.PRS file

TopSheetMetalPlateNameMask = LAMIERA {0}x{1}x{2}

Code

The metal plate's code is made following a defined model in the TOPX.PRS file

TopSheetMetalPlateCodeMask = SP{0}MT{1}

Other attributes

Volume and secondary attributes are set as well.