Creating Steelwork sections using Planar Shells?
Creating Steelwork sections using Planar Shells?
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Does anyone have any tips for methods to use when creating steelwork sections?
I tend to end up with a lot of parent child problems when i come to try and modify the structure at a later point.
If there's any online tutorials or tips for this, it would be greatly appreciated.
Mikey
I tend to end up with a lot of parent child problems when i come to try and modify the structure at a later point.
If there's any online tutorials or tips for this, it would be greatly appreciated.
Mikey
RE: Creating Steelwork sections using Planar Shells?
corus
RE: Creating Steelwork sections using Planar Shells?
Going even more fundamental than this...
Would you look to make it using the following methods :-
1. make each web and flange seperately as parts, then bring them into an assembly. Thus for an I beam, you'd have 3 "parts", and a 4 sided frame would have 12 parts.
2. Make each piece of metal as a seperate part, for an I beam, you'd have only 1 part. and a frame would have 4 parts.
3. Make the whole structure as a part? Thus having a single part in the assembly.
regards
Mikey
In case it makes any difference, it's a fabricated structure.
RE: Creating Steelwork sections using Planar Shells?
For a 3D shell model you can sketch a wire drawing and extrude this to make up the I section in shells. Similarly for the frame. For more complicated 3D shapes, extrude edges from the basic shape you've defined.
corus
RE: Creating Steelwork sections using Planar Shells?
Up and running
Mikey