Trestle Cap

Used to parametrically generate a cap plate for a trestle frame, commonly used in electrical substations.

Restriction: A Trestle Cap plate can only be created or placed on Trestles.

Accessed from:

Support Plate tab

Used to specify the geometry of the hinge connection plate on the top of the trestle (between the two main legs).

Setting	Description
Thickness	Sets the thickness of the support plate.
Side Top Width	Sets the width measured from the center of the main legs to the outer edge of the plate at the top. Denoted with 1 in the diagram.
Side Bottom Width	Sets the width measured from the center of the main legs to the outer edge of the plate at the bottom. Denoted with 2 in the diagram.
Hinge Side Width	Sets the width measured from the center of the main legs to the hinged edge of the plate at the top. Denoted with 3 in the diagram.
Height	When on, sets the overall height of the plate. When off, the overall height is calculated by setting the Cut Length parameter. Denoted with 4 in the diagram.
Cut Length	When on, sets the overall length of the plate (measured from the trestle main legs to the cap plate). When off, the overall length (Cut Length) is calculated by setting the Height parameter. Denoted with 5 in the diagram.
Fillet Radius	Sets the radius of the rounded plate corner. Denoted with 6 in the diagram.
Hole Diameter	Sets the radius of the plate hole. Denoted with 7 in the diagram.
Move Down	When on, you can enter an offset distance from the top of the trestle legs to the top of the support plate. When off, the offset is zero. Denoted with 8 in the diagram.

Used to specify the geometry of the cap plate.

Setting	Description
Thickness	Sets the thickness of the cap plate.
Diameter	Sets the diameter of the cap plate. Denoted with 1 in the diagram.

Used to specify the geometry of stiffeners placed on either side of the hinge plates.

Setting	Description
Thickness	Sets the thickness of the trestle stiffener plate.
Top Width	Sets the width of the plate at the top. Denoted with 1 in the diagram.
Height	Sets the overall height of the plate. Denoted with 2 in the diagram.
Side Height	Sets the height of the plate on the right. Denoted with 3 in the diagram.
Circle Diameter	Sets the diameter of the circular pattern made by the stiffener plates which also determines the widths at the bottoms of the plates. Denoted by 4 in the diagram.
Distance Between	Sets the distance between the plates. Denoted by 5 in the diagram.

Used to specify the geometry of hinge plates.

Setting	Description
Thickness	Sets the thickness of the trestle hinge plate.
Fillet Radius	Sets the radius of the rounded plate corner. Denoted with 1 in the diagram.
Hole Height	Sets the distance between the hole and the trestle cap plate. Denoted with 2 in the diagram.
Length	Sets the length of the plate where it is attached to the trestle cap. Denoted with 3 in the diagram.

Used to create a new OpenBridge Modeler group with the Substation Gallery objects.

Setting	Description
Create Group	Select this option to select additional shapes. Separate Substation Gallery objects are created.

Used to assign elements in the connection to a material, display class, area class, part family, level, etc.

Setting	Description
OK	Closes the dialog and save your changes.
Cancel	Closes the dialog without saving changes.
Help	Opens online help.
Template	Saves and retrieve (Using Templates) settings to be used on other projects.
Clone	Shifts focus to the geometry, allowing cloning the current structural object (stair, frame, truss, etc.) properties to match one or more objects selected in the view.
Apply	Updates the current model object with any changes made in the dialog settings.
Show /Hide Preview	Opens or closes, respectively, a flyout panel to display an illustration based on the tool.

Key-in: PROSTEEL CREATE TRESTLECAP