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Advance Trim plate to rolled angle

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Anonymous
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Advance Trim plate to rolled angle

I am trying to trim a gusset plate to rolled angles as shown below.  I have tried advanced trim to even just one angle and I can't get it to work.  I have tried WCS and USC at the plate face.

 

Does anyone have an idea on how to do this.?  I had no problem trimming the angles to the end plates. 

 

I am using Advance Steel 2019.

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johnjmbennett
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Try some of the opitons on the features palette,

 Not sure if you are trying to trim the angle / split either side of what looks like vertical stiffener in the plate.

 

you may find you have to use a polygon contour, because the angle is curved.

 

 

 

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Anonymous
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I want to trim the plate to the angle.  I am thinking of adding a straight angle at the intersection of the plate and curved angle,array it and then using those to make the trim.  Then delete the extra angle pieces.
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johnjmbennett
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So if you have a dummy straight angle, try the plate element contour in the plate features , bottom of the features palette.

Sorry not at pc for image.

https://knowledge.autodesk.com/support/advance-steel/learn-explore/caas/CloudHelp/cloudhelp/2017/ENU...

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Anonymous
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Thanks for your help John.

 

I got it to work by adding the angle at the first instance and created an array for the remainder.  I then individually trimmed the plate gusset at each angle.  Then once all the trimming was complete I deleted all the angles and the trim  contour remained. I then was able to polar array the remaining gussets all trimmed correctly.  Lesson learned. You cannot trim to a rolled section.

 

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