Connecting Structural Members Connections between structural members are supported. Structural members are considered connected when an endpoint of one member lies on an endpoint or along the axis of another. With some exceptions, you have the option of maintaining or breaking these connections when you move a member using its Location grip. Connections between structural members are also recognized across external reference (xref) drawings, and you can use objects in an xref to position and establish trim planes for members you are adding. For example, while working in one drawing, you can open an xref containing a column grid and use it to lay out columns or beams.
If you edit the xref in-place, connections between structural members are maintained just as they would be in the host drawing. Trimming Structural Members Structural members are trimmed using objects called trim planes, which let you clean up joints between multiple structural members or between structural members and other objects. Using the Properties palette for a structural member tool, you can create specific trim planes that are applied when you add a new member with the tool. Or you can specify that trim planes be created automatically when you connect the new member to an existing structural member in a drawing.
Once a member has been added to a drawing, you can edit its trim planes or add new ones. Additional trim planes can be defined on the member itself or in relation to an edge of another object. Materials in Structural Members In AutoCAD Architecture, you can assign materials to a structural member. These materials are displayed in wireframe and working shade views, or when rendered.
Materials have specific settings for the physical components of a structural member. AutoCAD Architecture provides a large number of predefined materials for all common design purposes, which contain settings for structural members. You can use these predefined materials, or modify them to your special designs.
You can also create your own materials from scratch. Creating Custom Structural Members You can use the styles from the Structural Member Catalog and Structural Member Style wizard to create structural members for most of your design needs. However, your project requirements may require you to create structural members that cannot be created from a shape in the catalog or created with the wizard. For example, you may want to create:. a column with a shape that tapers from start to end.
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a composite column created from a steel shape encased in a concrete shape. a rigid frame created from multiple tapering shapes extruded along the path of the frame. a structural member with a custom shape that cannot be created in the catalog or with the wizard To create custom structural members, you use the design rules within a structural member style to extrude one or more shapes along the path of the member. You can use shapes created in the catalog or with the wizard, or you can create your own custom shapes.
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