Neil Ironside Posted November 21, 2001 Share Posted November 21, 2001 I have tried using the object palette - wide flange tool to create a beam in 3D, but the tool will not allow me to input any # in the z dimension box other than 0. Is this a bug? Quote Link to comment
Neil Ironside Posted November 22, 2001 Author Share Posted November 22, 2001 An addendum to my posted message....the easy work-around on this is to ungroup the steel object, losing its class object attributes, and then do an extrude. This is method is clunky, and eliminates the possibility of changing the profile via the dialogue box. So I can do it, but it isn't elegant Quote Link to comment
Marc Pitman Posted November 22, 2001 Share Posted November 22, 2001 I was wondering about the same thing. The z field seems like it would change the position of an object in 3d space, but since structural shapes appear to be just 2d objects they can only appear in plan view, so why the z field? To make the object 3d I had to ungroup the symbol and then extrude it. Quote Link to comment
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