How to create Plated Box with Camber?

Environment

India

Follow these steps to create a plated box with camber.

On the Steel ribbon, use the Polybeam command to generate a three-point polybeam by selecting a start point, mid-point and end point of beam.

Select center handle point of beam by pressing the Alt key on key board and use Move linear command by right clicking the beam. Next, move the center handle point vertically by the value of camber required.

Double click center handle point of the beam to open Chamfer properties of beam and select curve chamfer from list. Next, click modify. (Optional)

Next, modify the profile of the beam to parametric profile e.g. HI section required for plated box.

Use Plate beam converter (Plates from built-up Section) tool to convert Beam to a plated box. You can download this tool from Tekla warehouse

Clicking this selection box will retain camber and all details and convert profile to individual plates as a plate girder.

Select the web plate and use move linear command by right clicking the beam to move the web plate from middle to Left.

Select the web plate and use copy linear command by right clicking the beam to copy the web plate from Left to right.

Weld the right hand side web plate with flange to create an assembly. A Plated box is created.

Note: you can use Rectangular Hollow sections instead of HI profiles in Step 4 to convert in to Plated box by following these steps till the Step 5 if your flange and
web thickness are same and there is no cantilever (projections) in the plated box.