Placing a Ladder on a Compartment

This task shows you how to place a ladder on a compartment.
Placing a ladder on a compartment follows the same basic procedure described in placing a door on a compartment, and you should refer to it. There are, however, different ways in which connectors have been placed on the sample parts provided with this application, and these are explained here.
1. To place a vertical ladder, follow the same procedure described in Placing a Door or Hatch on Compartment. Like a door or a hatch, the vertical ladder connector face is on the body and the orientation plane is at the bottom.
2. To place an incline ladder (with the connector face on the bottom and the orientation plane at the front--the attach surface), do the following:
  1. After you select the ladder in the Catalog Browser, select the placement boundary.

    Since the connector face is defined at the bottom of the ladder, you should select the surface the ladder will rest on as the placement boundary - in this case the deck.
     
  2. Select the orientation boundary, which is the surface the ladder will rest against - a bulkhead or wall. In most cases select 0 as the value for the orientation boundary offset and placement boundary offset. You can use the placement vectors as described earlier.

    NOTE: The incline of the ladder was created when the part was built. The behavior described above assumes the connectors were defined in this manner.
3. To place a vertical or incline ladder, (with the connector face defined on top of the ladder and orientation plane in the body of the ladder), do the following:
  1. After you select the part in the Catalog Browser, select a placement boundary.

    Since the connector face has been defined on top of the ladder, this is usually a ceiling.
     
  2. Select an orientation boundary, which will be the wall or bulkhead from which you want to measure the distance to the ladder.
     
  3. When the Define Offsets dialog box displays, enter the orientation boundary offset - this is the distance the ladder will place from the surface you selected as orientation boundary.
     
  4. In the placement boundary offset field enter the distance you want the top of the ladder from the ceiling. If you want the ladder to protrude above the ceiling enter a negative figure. You can use the placement vectors as described earlier. In the image below the ladder is placed 2000 mm from the orientation boundary, and protrudes 100 mm above the ceiling.