Plate Dispatch
Used to create the structural steel platform by dispatching a series of sheet plates over existing set of structural beams, which forms closed platform region. Plates can be automatically bolted.
Accessed from:Dialog Controls
Setting | Description |
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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. |
Apply | Updates the current model object with any changes made in the dialog settings. |
Structural Steel platforms are used very often in steel projects. The new platform tool places the plates and connects them to existing beams. If a beam is changing in location, the plates are updated automatically.
Platform tool focuses on the plate distribution over existing beams.
Platform can be in any kind of shape:
The beams can be any kind of shape type: Angles, C-channels, hollow
sections, wide flanges, flat bars, user shapes, welded shapes.