Displays the options that you use to place an offset seam in the model.
Seam by Offset Properties
Opens the Seam By Offset Properties Dialog, which you use to view and modify the properties of the seam that you are about to place in the model.
Plate System
Specifies the plate part that you want to split. You can select multiple a plate part to place multiple straking seams at the same time. The software uses the same information for each seam. After placement, the seams are unrelated to each other and can be edited as individual entities.
Base Curve
Specifies an existing curve or grid plane from which to offset the seam. The intersection of the grid plane and the plate part defines the base curve.
Offset Curve Definition
Defines the offset parameters and direction from the base curve. See the Offset Curve Definition controls described below.
Boundary Definition
Defines the boundaries of the seam. You can define the boundaries by selecting objects in the model. If you select objects in the model, and those objects are moved, the software automatically resizes the seam to maintain the boundary relationship. See Boundary Definition Controls below.
Finish
Places the seam using the defined parameters.
Cancel
Clears all selected objects.
Accept
Accepts all selected objects.
Offset Curve Definition Controls
Unlimited
Defines offset curves without a stop limit.
Stop Limit
Defines offset curves with a stop limit. By using a stop limit, you can select an edge, profile landing curve, connection reference curve, or seam to control the landing curves being created. If you type an offset value and the Offset lock is locked, then landing curves are applied at increments of the offset value until the selected stop limit is reached. If the Offset lock is unlocked and a value has been defined for Count, then the landing curves equal to the number typed in the Count box are equally spaced between the base curve and the stop limit.
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Offset lock
Locks the Offset value, disabling updates of the offset value by mouse moves. This option is only available when you use the Offset from a Plane option.
Offset
Specifies the offset distance between the base curve and the landing curve that you are defining. If you type 0, the landing curve is place on the base curve. This box may also display the offset distance as defined by mouse movements.
Method
Specifies an offset method. You can select transverse, longitudinal, vertical, or girth.
Count
Specifies how many seams should be created, each equally spaced by increments of the offset value.
Step
Defines an increment that the system should use as you dynamically move the mouse. If you have typed a value in the Offset box, then this control is not used.
Boundary Definition Controls
Pick Boundaries
Selects objects in the model or in the Workspace Explorer to define the boundaries. This option is only available when you are defining the boundaries.
Solve Ambiguity
If the objects that you selected in the model for the boundary define an ambiguous solution, then the software prompts you to select one bounded section to clarify the needed boundary. This ambiguity only occurs if one of the boundaries, such as the hull, wraps around both sides of object. Move the cursor over a bounded section, and then click to select.
Boundary List
Opens the Boundary List Dialog, which allows you to review and define the boundaries.