PlateFastener

class compas_timber.elements.PlateFastener

Bases: Fastener

A class to represent flat plate timber fasteners (e.g. steel plates).

Parameters:

shapeGeometry

The shape of the fastener at the XY plane origin.

frameFrame

The frame of the instance of the fastener that is applied to the model. The fastener should be defined at the XY plane origin with the x-axis pointing in the direction of the main_beam.

holeslist of tuple, optional

The holes of the fastener. Structure is as follows: [(point, diameter), …]

anglefloat, optional (default=math.pi / 2)

The angle of the fastener. The angle between the beam elements must be the same.

Attributes:

geometryGeometry

The geometry of the fastener.

frameFrame

The frame of the fastener.

Methods

add_features	Adds the geometric features to the beams.
compute_geometry	Constructs the geometry of the fastener as oriented in space.
get_fastener_frames	Calculates the frames of the fasteners.
place_instances	Adds the fasteners to the joint.
set_default
validate_fastener_beam_compatibility	Checks if the beams are compatible with the joint and sets the front and back face indices.

Inherited Methods

ToString	Converts the instance to a string.
add_feature	Add a feature to the list of features of the element.
apply_features	Apply the features to the (base) geometry.
compute_aabb	Computes the Axis Aligned Bounding Box (AABB) of the geometry of the element.
compute_collision_mesh	Computes the collision geometry of the geometry of the element.
compute_contacts	Compute the contacts between this element and another element.
compute_elementgeometry	Returns the geometry of the fastener in the model.
compute_modelgeometry	Compute the geometry of the element in model coordinates and taking into account the effect of interactions with connected elements.
compute_modeltransformation	Compute the transformation to model coordinates of this element based on its position in the spatial hierarchy of the model.
compute_obb	Computes the Oriented Bounding Box (OBB) of the geometry of the element.
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.
sha256	Compute a hash of the data for comparison during version control using the sha256 algorithm.
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.
transformed	Creates a transformed copy of the element.
validate_data	Validate the data against the object's data schema.