SitePlan: Plate Report

Plate Report by Thickness ( data comes from member details )

Tool summary :

Outputs a report that lists all plates of types selected on the Plate Report window that are submaterials of members that have been detailed.
Plates of the same thickness are listed on the same page (or consecutive pages if they won't all fit on the same page). Plates of different thickness are always on separate pages.

In this example, the page header says Thickness = 1/4 , which means that all plates that are listed on the page are 1/4 inch thick.
See page header for information on the header of this report. See columns on the report for an explanation of each of the columns on this report. This help page also provides step-by-step instructions .

Also see :

Plate Report window (opens so you can set types of plates when outputting this report)
Reports ( User and Site Options > Output > " Reports " > set report output)
Report viewer (a good way to output a report)

Page header (also see the example ):

Fabricator: The name of the current Fabricator at the time you generated this report. The same Fabricator is reported on all pages of a Plate Report by Thickness .

Job: The name of the current Job at the time you generated this report. The report includes only materials that are from the Job that is listed here. The same Job is reported on all pages of a Plate Report by Thickness .

Page number: The number of this page of the report. Plates of the same thickness are listed on the same page (or consecutive pages if they won't all fit on the same page).

Thickness: The thickness of plates listed on the page of the report you are currently looking at. The report lists plates of the same thickness on the same page (or consecutive pages if they won't all fit on the same page).

Plate Type: The types of plates that may be included in the report (all pages taken together). The types of plates are the types selected on the Plate Report window when the report was generated. If the 3D model of the Job from which this report was generated was up to date and all members in that Job were detailed, then all instances of plate types listed here are included in the report. The same plate types are reported on all pages of a Plate Report by Thickness .

Columns on the report (also see the example ):

Line: The number of the line that the particular plate falls on. All plates that are assigned the same submaterial piecemark are listed on the same line, and each submaterial piecemark is listed on a different line.

Quantity: The number of plates that have the same submaterial piecemark . If the model and all details are up to date, then this quantity is all plates with this submaterial piecemark that are in your current Job.

Minor mark: The piecemark ( submaterial mark ) of the plates in the line.

Description: The section size " Description " found on the material's General Information window. Rectangular plate material is designated by "Plate" prefix + thickness x width (example: PL3/8x1-0 ). Round plate material is designated by "Round Plate" prefix + thickness x diameter (example: RPL3/8x1-2 ). Bent plate is designated by "Bent Plate" prefix + thickness x width (example: BPL3/8x1-0 ).

Length: The length of each of the plates in the line. The length together with the description give the actual section size of an individual plate.

Steel Grade: The steel grade of each of the plates in the line.

How to output a Plate Report by Thickness :

If the 3D model is up to date and all members have been detailed, this report tells you the sizes of plates that are needed to fabricate all members in your current Job.

1 . Please note that the user of a full-featured SDS2 program affects information on this report in the following ways:

1a : This report is compiled from member details in your current Job . When Process and Create Solids followed by auto detailing of members in that Job is done in a full-featured SDS2 program , the database for this report is updated. You can then output a Plate Report by Thickness that will be up to date.

2 . Use any one (1) of the following methods to begin output of this report:

Method 1 : Home > Reports > System Reports > Material > Plate Report by Thickness .

Method 2 : Click the Plate Report by Thickness icon. The icon can be taken from the group named ' Reports ' and placed on a toolbar (classic) or the ribbon (lightning). Ribbon configuration is done using Customize Interface .

Method 3 : If " Modeling layout style " or " Drawing Editor layout style " is ' Classic ', you can use the menu system to choose Reports > Plate Report > Plate Report by Thickness .

3 . The Plate Report window opens.

Alternative 1 : Select the plate types you want included in the report, then press " OK ." Go to step 4.

Alternative 2 : Press " Cancel " to end this operation without generating the report. Do not continue.

4 . The Output Configuration window opens, allowing you to change the destination (for example, to " Screen " or " Printer ").

Alternative 1 : Press " OK " to output the report. Go to step 5.

Alternative 2 : Press " Cancel " to end this operation without generating the report. Do not continue.

5 . The Plate Report by Thickness is output to the device/ location that you designated.

Note: If you output the report to the report viewer (" Screen "), you can now review the report on screen then optionally print it or output it to disk (see report viewer ).