Creation of a custom structural member

[clewy]

Hi,

I am having an issue with the creation of bespoke sized structural members that I hope somone may be able to assit with.

We utalise bespoke girder plate beams (75mm x 200mm x Length), which I am attempting to add as a custom structural member. I can select 'Member Type: Custom' and see a set of pre-filled material sizes, but cannot for the life of me work out how to edit these or import a custom shape with these dimentions?

Could anyone point me in the right direction?

Thanks,

Callum

[blanger]

On 7/1/2022 at 4:27 AM, clewy said:

Hi,

I am having an issue with the creation of bespoke sized structural members that I hope somone may be able to assit with.

We utalise bespoke girder plate beams (75mm x 200mm x Length), which I am attempting to add as a custom structural member. I can select 'Member Type: Custom' and see a set of pre-filled material sizes, but cannot for the life of me work out how to edit these or import a custom shape with these dimentions?

Could anyone point me in the right direction?

Thanks,

Callum

Draw a rectangle at 75x200 and save as a symbol. Select "member type :custom" in the framing tool, scroll down to the bottom of the OIP. "Choose Profile Symbol" navigate in the resources that come up to your current open file where that symbol of 75x200 is and select it. 👍🏻

Edited July 2, 2022 by blanger

[Tom W.]

And if you want your custom profile symbol to be available in all files save it in your user folder (Defaults > Structural Shapes).

[Pat Stanford]

And if you are working with multiple people and want them to all have the custom profile symbol, then set everyone up to use the same Workgroup Folder and save the symbol there. Same file path as in the User Folder (or Application Folder).

[clewy]

Sorry it took me so long to get back to you guys - thanks very much for your help!