Doubler Plate

On the Structural tab, the Doubler Plate tool allows you to place plates with a predefined shape to the ends of beams and straight pipes.

You can add a doubler plate so that it aligns with the end of the target object, and the system can automatically shorten the object to make space for the plate. Or, if the beam or pipe is rotated and the end needs to be beveled to enable a miter joint with another object, the system can auto-trim the end using a planar face obtained from the associated object.

In this example, beam end has been auto-trimmed with the floor object, and a doubler plate has been added between them:

In the area model, doubler plates are modeled as standard parts which do not belong to any pipeline and thus are not bound to a specification.

Collision detection does not report contacts or collisions between a doubler plate and the objects associated with it, as long as the doubler plate has not been moved and the associated parts are in sync with it.