Editing a Row of the Virtual Stacking

This task shows you how manage edit a row of the virtual stacking bu moving cells from a ply to another.
Either work on the part where you have defined cells or open the VirtualStackingGA01.CATPart document.

  1. Click Virtual stacking management and select the Grid node:

    • A Grid Virtual Stacking node is created in the specification tree,
    • The Virtual stacking management dialog box and the tools palettes are displayed:

  2. Set Entity level to Ply and View mode to Cells.

  3. Select the row of Ply.5 in the 2D viewer.
    The corresponding cells are highlighted in the 3D viewer.

  4. Click Single row edition (geometry and properties) in the tools palette.
    The Single row edition (geometry and properties) dialog box is displayed:
    Note that Sequence name is not available when Entity level is set to Ply.

  5. Pick cells C20, C21, C6, C4, C11 and C8 in the 3D Viewer and click Cell dispatch in the dialog box:
    • In the 3D viewer, those cells are displayed with a sign indicating that they could be either removed (-) from or added (+) to Ply.5.
    • In the dialog box,
      • Sources displays the plies the cells you have picked belong to,
      • Recipients displays the plies you could send those cells to.

    In the following two steps, you will check the plies in the Recipients and in the Sources lists:

    • ?+ indicates cells that can be added to a ply,
    • ?- indicates cells that can be removed from a ply,
    • the green mark indicates that you have validated the proposal, either addition or removal,
    • the red cross indicates that the cells can not be moved.

  6. Select Ply.8 in the Recipients list. The display in the 3D Viewer changes to:

    ?+ indicates the cells that could be added to Ply.8.
    Pick the ?+ on C6 and C4. ?+ is replaced by a green validation mark and the name of the ply the cells belong now to.

  7. Select Ply.14 in the Recipients list. The display in the 3D Viewer changes to:

    The red cross identifies cells that cannot be added to the ply.
    Continue to check all plies in the Recipients list.
    For Ply.49, validate C20 and C21:

  8. Now check the plies in the Sources list. For Ply.54 validate the removal of C11.

  9. Click OK to validate and exit the Edit row dialog box. Select the row of Ply.5 again. It now looks like this:

Note that the modification of the orientation of a ply or a sequence is taken into account by the symmetry.