Ply Objects
The term “Ply” denotes a single layer of material such as foam, paper, aluminum, or honeycomb structure in the Composite Design environment. A ply is defined using the object ProPly with the type as PRO_CMPST_PLY_DEF. You can use the ProPly object to set and get the color of the ply.
Ply View and Flat Ply View
You can create and view the scaled-up section of a model along a particular direction. You can also create multiple composite sections in a Composite Design. For this, you must have ply objects in your Composite Design environment.
Functions Introduced:
Use the function
ProDrawingFlatPlyViewCreate() to create a flat ply view in a specified drawing. The drawing must be displayed. The input arguments are as follows:
• drawing—The drawing on which you want to create a flat ply view and is defined using ProDrawing object.
• composite—The composite solid defined using ProSolid.
• sheet_number—Reserved for future use.
• ply —Active ply defined using the ProPly feature type.
• position —The position of the view on the screen and is defined using the ProPoint3d object.
• scale —Scale defined as double value. If scale is >0, the view has an associated scale. If scale is <=0, the view has a default scale.
Use the function
ProDrawingPlyViewCreate() to create a ply view in a specified drawing. The drawing must be displayed. The input arguments are as follows:
• drawing—The drawing on which you want to create a flat ply view and is defined using ProDrawing object.
• composite—The composite solid defined using ProSolid.
• sheet_number—The number of the sheet on which to place the view.
• ply —Active ply defined using the ProPly feature type.
• position —The position of the view on the screen and is defined using the ProPoint3d object.
• scale —Scale defined as double value. If scale is >0, the view has an associated scale. If scale is <=0, the view has a default scale.
The output of both the functions
ProDrawingFlatPlyViewCreate() and
ProDrawingPlyViewCreate() is the view specified by the
ProView handle.