fuselageCutOutType

A cut-out describes an opening in the fuselage, such as a door, an emergency exit, a window or a ramp. It is a rectangle with rounded corners, extruded along <orientationVector>, and removes the fuselage surface around its centre; the opposite side of the fuselage is not affected. A door of a deck refers to its cut-out by UID (doorOpeningType).

Position

All values are given in the fuselage coordinate system. The centre of the cut-out is a point on the surface, given in the same way as the position of a stringer or a frame (stringerFramePositionType): the point where the ray from the reference point (<positionX>, <referenceY>, <referenceZ>) in the direction of <referenceAngle> meets the surface. The ray runs in the plane x = <positionX>; 0° points up and 90° towards −y, i.e. to the left side in flight direction.

Shape

The cut-out coordinate system has its origin at the centre. Its x-axis is the <orientationVector>, which points out of the fuselage and is the direction of the extrusion. Its y-axis is the <alignmentVector>, projected onto the plane normal to the x-axis, and its z-axis completes the right-handed system. The cut-out is the rectangle in the y-z plane that is centred at the origin, <deltaY> wide along y and <deltaZ> high along z, with its corners rounded by <filletRadius>.

Cut-out of a passenger door: (a) the fuselage section at positionX seen from behind, with a ray from the reference point, turned from the z direction by the referenceAngle of 90 degrees to the left, meeting the surface at the centre, the orientationVector pointing outwards and the arc of the contour removed by the cut-out; (b) the cut-out seen from outside as a rectangle with rounded corners around the centre, deltaY wide along the alignmentVector and deltaZ high, with its filletRadius

The figure shows the forward passenger door of the example below. In the section at <positionX>, seen from behind (a), the ray runs from the reference point to the left and meets the surface at the centre; the cut-out removes the arc of the contour between its upper and its lower edge. Seen from outside (b), the cut-out is the rounded rectangle around the centre, 0.81 m wide along the <alignmentVector> and 1.85 m high.

Without <alignmentVector>, the orientation of the rectangle about the x-axis is not yet specified, and neither is the meaning of <deltaY1> and <deltaZ1>.

Rules

The reference point lies inside the fuselage.
The <alignmentVector> is not parallel to the <orientationVector>.
The <filletRadius> is at most half the smaller of <deltaY> and <deltaZ>.

Example

The forward passenger door of a short-range airliner, 0.81 m wide and 1.85 m high, on the left side of the fuselage with its sill at the cabin floor at z = −0.55 m:

<cutOuts>
    <element uID="Fuselage_paxDoorL1">
        <name>Forward passenger door</name>
        <positionX>6.2</positionX>
        <referenceY>0</referenceY>
        <referenceZ>0.375</referenceZ>
        <referenceAngle>90</referenceAngle>
        <orientationVector>
            <x>0</x>
            <y>-1</y>
            <z>0</z>
        </orientationVector>
        <alignmentVector>
            <x>1</x>
            <y>0</y>
            <z>0</z>
        </alignmentVector>
        <deltaY>0.81</deltaY>
        <deltaZ>1.85</deltaZ>
        <filletRadius>0.2</filletRadius>
        <cutoutType>paxDoor</cutoutType>
    </element>
    ...
</cutOuts>

Passenger door on the left side of the fuselage

Attributes

Name	Type	Use	Description
`@externalDataDirectory`	`xsd:string`	optional	Directory of the external file the element was read from, as URI
`@externalDataNodePath`	`xsd:string`	optional	Path of the parent element in the merged dataset, at which the element was inserted from an external file
`@externalFileName`	`xsd:string`	optional	Name of the external file the element was read from
`@uID`	`xsd:ID`	required	UID

Child elements

Name	Type	Constraints	OccurrenceHow often the element may appear at this place. The schema writes it as minOccurs and maxOccurs on the declaration.	Description
allThe children below may appear in any order. Each may appear at most once.
`name`	`stringBaseType`		[0..1] optional	Name
`description`	`stringBaseType`		[0..1] optional	Description
`positionX`	`doubleBaseType`		[1..1] required	Position of the reference point and of the centre along the x-axis [m]
`referenceY`	`doubleBaseType`		[1..1] required	Y-coordinate of the reference point [m]
`referenceZ`	`doubleBaseType`		[1..1] required	Z-coordinate of the reference point [m]
`referenceAngle`	`doubleBaseType`		[1..1] required	Direction of the ray from the reference point to the centre: the z-axis rotated about the x-axis, 90 pointing towards -y [deg]
`orientationVector`	`pointXYZType`		[1..1] required	Direction of the extrusion, pointing out of the fuselage; x-axis of the cut-out coordinate system
`alignmentVector`	`pointXYZType`		[0..1] optional	Direction of the width; projected onto the plane normal to the orientationVector, it is the y-axis of the cut-out coordinate system
`deltaY`	`doubleBaseType`		[1..1] required	Width along the y-axis of the cut-out coordinate system [m]
`deltaZ`	`doubleBaseType`		[1..1] required	Height along the z-axis of the cut-out coordinate system [m]
`deltaY1`	`doubleBaseType`		[0..1] optional	Further width, meaning not yet specified [m]
`deltaZ1`	`doubleBaseType`		[0..1] optional	Further height, meaning not yet specified [m]
`filletRadius`	`doubleBaseType`		[1..1] required	Corner radius of the rectangle [m]
`cutoutType`	`stringBaseType`	6 values	[1..1] required	Kind of opening

fuselageCutOutType

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