I don't work with steel shapes much but have a curtain wall mockup project that requires one steel tube davit support. It is a HSS6x6 tube vertical created from a column family with a HSS6x6 horizontal created from a structural framing family for attachment to the floor beam. In a project how would one miter these two sections?
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Reference plane will work, but as highlighted above it wont move with the member and is easy to delete accidentially. If you do use a ref plane, naming it something is a good tip to make sure later down the track you can easily see why it is there
Depending how many instances you have, you are best to make a family which accurately includes both members as nested elements
But if you only have a few instances, another method is opening by face on each element
The good thing about opening by face is that it hosts to each member, and if you move the member the opening goes with it
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Place the two tubes perpendicular to each other, maybe using coarse detail first so that they display as lines. Change to Medium detail. Now > Modify > Column/Beam Joins. You will see a couple of arrows close to the tubes. Click on one of the arrows > Lock the join > Modify to finish.
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Originally posted by dzatto View PostAdd a reference plane where you want the miter to be. Then use the cut tool. The only thing is, you can't delete the reference plane later. If you do the miter goes with it.I'm retired, if you don't like it, go around!
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Originally posted by Alfredo Medina View PostPlace the two tubes perpendicular to each other, maybe using coarse detail first so that they display as lines. Change to Medium detail. Now > Modify > Column/Beam Joins. You will see a couple of arrows close to the tubes. Click on one of the arrows > Lock the join > Modify to finish.
See illustration.I'm retired, if you don't like it, go around!
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Originally posted by Dave Jones View PostI tried a RP and it worked fine on the vertical tube but the horizontal tube leaves behind the wrong side no matter where I select it to start the Cut process. How do I control which side stays and which side leaves?
Your post just beat mine. Maybe they have to both be beams or columns, not one of each?Dan
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Originally posted by dzatto View PostI totally forgot about the way Alf posted. That would work best and is the easiest. I just started using that way a little while ago. lol
Your post just beat mine. Maybe they have to both be beams or columns, not one of each?I'm retired, if you don't like it, go around!
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Yes, Ben and Dzatto are correct in their comments. Dave, since I had seen an image of that mock-up project you were doing, because you posted it in Augi some day, I thought about beam to beam connection, which is easy with the Column/Beam Join tool.
But unfortunately, yes, it's not easy when it is column to beam. To make it work, the column element would have to be a beam that has been rotated (and disjoined) in elevation view, as in this example. Then the Column/Beam Joint tool works easily again, displaying the arrows!
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