Planarize
Planarize is a tool for moving nodes of selected entities into a target plane.
Overview
The Tekla Structural Designer Support Team occasionally see models with geometry issues such as entities that are very close to - but not quite - co-planar. Such small inconsistencies can cause issues with many operations, such as load decomposition and analysis, and should be avoided. Such issues rarely result from modeling directly in Tekla Structural Designer, but may more commonly occur for import of models with geometry issues from other applications.
Planarize can assist you in resolving these inconsistencies by allowing you to move nodes of not-quite co-planar entities into the ‘correct’ target plane, as selected by you.
To run Planarize, you right-click on the target grid line (the one on which entities are correctly modeled) in any view and select Planarize FRM <grid ref>
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define the tolerance (default 25mm) for entity nodes to be considered near enough to the target plane to be able to be moved into it.
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display or hide entities already attached to, or defined in the target plane.
- Limit to Grid Extent, by default this property is selected which restricts the length of the target plane to the extent of the grid line (see this example).
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confirm the target plane into which nodes will be moved.
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As entities are selected they change color to indicate their adjacent nodes have moved and are now defined in plane.
Note that adjacent nodes must lie within an adjacent zone around the plane. This zone (which vertically continues to the model extents) is illustrated in the figure below.
planarized grid line | |
target plane | |
adjacent zone | |
width of zone = 2 x Tolerance | |
length of zone = length of grid line |
Note: if Limit to Grid Extent unselected, zone length
increases to model extents
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adjacent nodes | |
non-adjacent node |
Move nodes into the plane of a grid line
Move nodes into the plane of a frame
Planarize properties
Item | Description |
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Tolerance | As the Tolerance is increased, more nodes become available for moving into the plane. |
Attached to plane |
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Defined in plane |
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Limit to Grid Extent |
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Target Plane | The plane into which nodes will be moved. (Pre-selected by choosing an existing frame or grid line.) |