curve plate length

H,

good morning.

I'm just wondering if we can get the arc length of a curve plate to show using an intelligent text.
I can get the height and thickness of the plate in the intelligent text.

hope some can share their ideas on how to fix this.

thank you all in advance.

which element you used for that curved plate? like Revolution?
and if possible post the pic of the same

With 12.1.SP4 you will have a new element called "Bent Plate"...

thanks for your reply
I'm using a gensec for the curve plate. and its geometry is similar to a half pipe.

Hi
may be you can use attribute: frad (radius of vertex,curve)

Thanks for all your replies. on my gensec (curve plate) I did not see any frad on the attributes at gensec and spine level.
we are using SP6.4 where can I find this bent plate?

do you can not use CURVE LEVEL?
Curve has attribute radius.

yes, thanks I found it. it is in the curve level. can we perform a mathematical expression to get the length of the curve? to show in an intelligent text?

[QUOTE=fddelacruz;78785]Thanks for all your replies. on my gensec (curve plate) I did not see any frad on the attributes at gensec and spine level.
we are using SP6.4 where can I find this bent plate?

It is a new element that will come out with 12.1.SP4 in a few days...

yes, thanks I found it. it is in the curve level. can we perform a mathematical expression to get the length of the curve? to show in an intelligent text?

I think it's go only with macro. That's just one example:

var !cur coll all curve for ce
do !i val !cur
  $!i
  var !cpos cpos wrt/*
  !poscur = !!ce.pos.wrt(worl)  
  prev
  !posp1 = !!ce.pos.wrt(worl)
  $!i
  next
  !posp2 = !!ce.pos.wrt(worl)  
  var !h1 const dist $!posp1 to $!posp2  
  var !h2 const dist $!posp1 to $!poscur  
  !dlhor = (2 * $!h2) + ((1 / 3) * ((2 * $!h2) - $!h1))  
  !dd = !dlhor.string('d2')
  $P Length of arc = $!dd
enddo