Calculations may be performed both for a whole structure and for a selected structure part.
Perform calculations of a defined CAD 3D model using Autodesk Robot Structural Analysis at any work stage.We should be able to show a basic placement of any support structure, and the Intelligence permits you to create a bill of materials that will quantify the materials needed to build the structure.The link between Autodesk Robot Structural Analysis (a calculation program) and Autodesk AutoCAD Structural Detailing (used to create drawings) has been designed in order to enable you to: So, the structural steel module is more than adequate for creating what we would typically refer to as white steel or piper steel, where the piper creates what's essentially a smart placeholder and that's then turned over to the structural team to design in detail. Just allow us to navigate through the 3D a little better, and make better viewpoints for us, so we can remove obstructions, that type of thing. And our visibility just allows us to control a little bit more of what we see inside the plant as we're designing it. They are what we would consider to be sort of a white steel or a placeholder, that would then be sent into a fully, full-featured structural detailing program, such as Advance Steel, and it would get finished off in there. And bear in mind, that the shapes that we use here aren't actually used for detailing.
But we can make it look relatively clean. Now, we can't do complex shapes, such as coping or any kind of detailed connections, when working with structural steel. We have some tools available for cutting. Or we can explode just into regular AutoCAD line shapes.
We can just click on the button, and then that will allow us to edit the member. Once we have some structural elements placed here, we can use this Structure Edit. So all that gets done in the Parts Insertion. We can set the parameters for our ladder and also for the cage. And one that we use a little more often is Ladder Settings, where we have two sets of options. We could do a set of risers, our distances. And again, I'm just going to work through. We can choose from the different heights, elevations. We can choose a different handrail shape. I'll just quickly run through here, and you can see when you're working with railings, you can set these various parameters here, based on the standards that you're going to be using. And the same goes for going through railings. And once we've chosen this particular member, and we say, okay that's the one that we'll be placing in our drawing. And under material, we have a number of different materials we can use here. But this is sort of our navigation on how we can control the placement of our steel. So, a number of different controls here with our orientation. We can the insert point if we want to insert from the midpoint corner. We can also look at insert points, it depending on how we insert our structural member. For this lesson, we're going to stick with the AISC standard shapes, and you can see here, we have a number of different standard member types and all the different shapes and options available. And under Member Settings, for example, it's going to open a dialogue box, and in here, you can see we have a number of different types of standard steel shapes, depending on the country or the region that you're working in. So, to change the type of components that we're using here, we go to My Settings. Everything that we do with the structural design tools are contained in this area on the Ribbon Menu. We have our Home tab, and the third tab along is our structural tab. And let's take a look at what we have across the top of our Ribbon Menu here. So, you'll see here under our Plant 3D Drawings. We're going to go to our Open, Desktop, Exercise Files, Chapter 03, and we want our Project.xml. So, we're going to go to Project Manager. Welcome to Chapter Three! In this lesson, we're going to take a look at the structural steel elements that are provided with the Plant 3D Product.