I am having issues adding chamfer to beams. Bridge is on a major skew of about 50 degrees, and the beams are not skewed with the end bent, therefore, the top flange needs to have a little chamfer. Every time I try to modify the beam to add this through the modeling tab, the beam disappears. Is there a way to do this?
I have attempted putting the beam along the skew and trimming it that way as well as having it non-skewed and attempting to chamfer just the top flange. Any help would be appreciated.
The picture below shows a red line which is where I need to have this beam trimmed down to.
Using normal OBM workflow, you will not be able to achieve that small chamfer there in the top right corner of the girder.
Using the latest OBM release, you can try to modify the beam solid using the MS solid tools, but this process needs to be done in the last stage of the modeling when no other changes are expected. If you will make a change that will trigger a bridge update, the custom modifications done to your solid will be erased because OBM will recreate the beam solids based on the initial data.
This same thing is occuring when I try to chamfer and adjust a single beam pedestal. So no other calculations are being made to the model. The complete pedestal structure disappears as the program is not able to read the adjustment. Keeps giving an error message of the change being ignored as if the program is not able to do it.
Am I correct to assume that you cannot modify structures with those modelling tools unless you are creating a parametric cell? (I've tested this out on the beams, pedestals, piers, etc. and still keeps giving the error and removing the structure)
Hi Matt,
Please send me your working files (with all the referenced files, if any) and a short video where you show your steps and the problem and I will have a look at it.
vlad.grigoras@bentley.com