Once created you can select any of the red connection lines to remove the association between one plate segment and an adjacent one.

Using the Conical Folded Plate command, create a plate with two circles of the same diameter. You can obtain the same results with Conical Folded Plate command but with more versatility. Advance Steel has created small plates and joined them to approximate a curve. All of the regular plate parameters can be defined here such as plate thickness, position and material.Īs you can see from the above image, the plate is still not a smooth bend as you would expect to get with a rolled plate.

Once you have defined the system Axis Line, the Plate Definition dialog box will pop-up where you can further define your plate.

Click the Start and End of the system Axis Line.

Choose a Center for the system Axis Line.

Defining the start and end of the system axis line will determine the width of the curved plate. For a curved plate like this, we should place the axis line in the center of the arc, both horizontally and vertically. What the command asks for next is information about the location of the system axis line. This command can also be found on the Objects tab > Beams panel.

On the Home tab > Objects panel, click the Folded Beam.

Draw an Arc and Copy it then select the width of the plate you want to create.

The first option we have is to use the Folded Beam option. Whilst Advance steel does not have a tool to create rolled plates directly there are some things we can do to approximate them. I have had questions from customers about creating a rolled plate in Autodesk’s Advance Steel, as opposed to folded plates. Today's post comes from James Branagan another Application Expert here at IMAGINiT.

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