Workshop allows you to expand a three dimensional hull surface designed in Maxsurf into its equivalent two dimensional expanded shape. This provides the basis for the template you would need to cut out a plate in order to construct the surface. You can create plates which cover an entire surface or cover just a part of a surface. You can define a plate on part of a surface as the area between four selected contours.

 View a short tutorial video showing how to add a plate in Workshop.

Working with plates consists of the following:

·   Plating a Whole Surface

·   Adding a Plate

·   Deleting a Plate

·   Developing Triangular Plates

·   Plate Development Method

·   Calculating Plates

·   Girth Differences

·   Plate Strain

·   Plate Development and Rolling Jigs

·   Plate User Coordinate Systems (UCS)

·   Plate Inset Lines

·   Plate Templates

·   Plate Pin Jigs

·   Shell Expansion

·   Plate Displays

See also Exporting Parts on page 79.