Duct Stiffeners

This tool is to create stiffeners on the wall of the duct according to varying size of the wall plate.

It is difficult to place individual stiffeners as per the variation of depth of the duct wall, with this tool it will be easy to create multiple stiffeners with the varying depth of the duct plate.

How to Locate

Installers are available at Duct and Plate Work
After installation, the ‘Duct Stiffener’ plugin is available in the component catalog group 'Duct and Plate Work'.

Usage

On double click you will get the duct stiffener dialog box in which you can edit the various fields including arrangement, stiffener size, position, offsets, materials etc.
  
To use this tool, click the icon in the component catalog & then select the Duct part   keeping ‘Select component’ selection switch on. Else you can select all the Individual plates of the duct keeping ‘Select objects in component’ switch on.
 
You can selct the number of stiffeners required & the end distances at the start & end point. You can also select the stiffener profile here. If there is no need for intermediate stiffener(s), then use delete stiffeners option.
 
Under Position, you can define the plane, rotation of the stiffener profile.
      
Using corner set out,  you can control the junction layout. Choose the marked option to have the stiffener angle back to back.
     
From below option, if you choose “Add to Main”, it will weld the stiffener with the duct to form one assembly. If you choose “Loose Assy”, it will keep all the stiffener as loose parts.
 
Using ‘Plate Selection’ option (see below), you can define the plate numbers on which you want the stiffeners.
 
Using side selection tab (see below), you can define the side of stiffener (inside duct or outside)
 
You can also control the vertical extension of the stiffeners using below values.
 
Under the parts tab, control for Profile, material, name, finish & class of stiffener profile is available.