Plate

class compas_timber.elements.Plate

Bases: TimberElement

A class to represent timber plates (plywood, CLT, etc.) defined by polylines on top and bottom faces of material.

Parameters:

frameFrame

The coordinate system (frame) of this plate.

lengthfloat

Length of the plate.

widthfloat

Width of the plate.

thicknessfloat

Thickness of the plate.

outline_aPolyline, optional

A line representing the principal outline of this plate.

outline_bPolyline, optional

A line representing the associated outline of this plate. This should have the same number of points as outline_a.

openingslist[Polyline], optional

A list of Polyline objects representing openings in this plate.

**kwargsdict, optional

Additional keyword arguments.

Attributes:

frameFrame

The coordinate system (frame) of this plate.

lengthfloat

Length of the plate.

widthfloat

Width of the plate.

heightfloat

Height of the plate (same as thickness).

thicknessfloat

Thickness of the plate.

outline_aPolyline

A line representing the principal outline of this plate.

outline_bPolyline

A line representing the associated outline of this plate.

is_platebool

Always True for plates.

blankBox

A feature-less box representing the material stock geometry to produce this plate.

blank_lengthfloat

Length of the plate blank.

featureslist[BTLxProcessing]

List of features applied to this plate.

keyint, optional

Once plate is added to a model, it will have this model-wide-unique integer key.

Methods

apply_edge_extensions	adjusts segments of the outlines to lay on the edge planes created by plate joints.
compute_aabb	Computes the Axis Aligned Bounding Box (AABB) of the element.
compute_collision_mesh	Computes the collision geometry of the element.
compute_elementgeometry	Compute the geometry of the element.
compute_obb	Computes the Oriented Bounding Box (OBB) of the element.
from_brep	Creates a plate from a brep.
from_outline_thickness	Constructs a Plate from a polyline outline and a thickness.
from_outlines	Constructs a Plate from two polyline outlines.
remove_blank_extension	Removes any extension plane for the given edge index.
reset	Resets the element to its initial state by removing all features, extensions, and debug_info.
set_extension_plane	Sets an extension plane for a specific edge of the plate.

Inherited Methods

ToString	Converts the instance to a string.
add_feature	Adds one or more features to the beam.
add_features	Adds one or more features to the beam.
apply_features	Apply the features to the (base) geometry.
back_side	Returns the previous side before the reference side, following the right-hand rule with the thumb along the beam's frame x-axis.
compute_contacts	Compute the contacts between this element and another element.
compute_modelgeometry	Same as parent but handles standalone elements.
compute_modeltransformation	Same as parent but handles standalone elements.
compute_point	Computes a reference point for the element geometry (e.g.
compute_surface_mesh	Computes the triangulated surface mesh of the element's model geometry.
compute_volumetric_mesh	Computes the tetrahedral volumetric mesh of the element's model geometry.
copy	Make an independent copy of the data object.
from_json	Construct an object of this type from a JSON file.
from_jsonstring	Construct an object of this type from a JSON string.
front_side	Returns the next side after the reference side, following the right-hand rule with the thumb along the beam's frame x-axis.
get_dimensions_relative_to_side	Returns the perpendicular and parallel dimensions of the beam to the given reference side.
opp_side	Returns the the side that is directly across from the reference side, following the right-hand rule with the thumb along the beam's frame x-axis.
remove_features	Removes a feature from the beam.
reset_computed_properties	Reset all computed/cached properties.
sha256	Compute a hash of the data for comparison during version control using the sha256 algorithm.
side_as_surface	Returns the requested side of the beam as a parametric planar surface.
to_json	Convert an object to its native data representation and save it to a JSON file.
to_jsonstring	Convert an object to its native data representation and save it to a JSON string.
transform	Transforms the element.
transformation_to_local	Compute the transformation to local coordinates of this element based on its position in the spatial hierarchy of the model.
transformed	Creates a transformed copy of the element.
validate_data	Validate the data against the object's data schema.