Ply drop-offs modelling using PreVABs

[sange000000]

Hello,

I have started using VABS and PreVABs recently.
Could someone give me a guideline to model ply drops using PreVABS? I would ideally like to model with a single baseline and giving some condition in the component declaration part.

Thanks :)

[sange000000]

adding to the query above. When I add additional layups within a segment only the first layup in the list shows up and the rest are ignored (I'm doing this to add begin and end to get ply drop offs). Adding joint command returns an error 'unable to parse the file'. I have added the lines from my.xml file below

lp layup2 layup1 hp layup1 hp,lp

[unitasium]

Can you provide the file or paste the code you are working on?

[sange000000]

materials.txt
xml.txt
attaching an example where layer begin is used

[unitasium]

In this case, the keyword 'segment' should be 'segments'. In addition, the keyword 'layup_side' may cause issues when I tested it. So you can comment it out and by default the layup will be generated on the left side of the base line. If you want the layup to be on the right side, the workaround is to reverse the base line (the order of the point list).