Hi,
I am trying to Model a Steel bridge in OBM (Not too worried about analysis, just need a 3D model).
Need to find out the best workflow. There are mainly 3 Questions. (Refer to the images below)
1. What type of Bridge I should pick at the start (eg. Steel Bridge or Segmental Bridge etc)?
2. Beams are outside of Deck edge, and won't let me place beam layout.
3. One of the steel beams is cantilevered, how to achieve that (through-beam layout?).
Thanks,
Jaimin Patel
Found the answer from one of the Bentley Colleague.
Jaimin:
You will need to create a dummy deck that spans the width of your steel beams on each side. Place the dummy deck with a vertical offset from your PGL such that the bottom of the deck is the top elevation of your steel beams. After working through the beam layout and modeling the girders, you should be able to turn off the dummy deck in the explorer. You could also place a second deck at the true location needed at any time in the process.
Answer Verified By: Jaimin Patel