I have created a functional component for my custom pier and placed it in the bridge model. The top surface of the cap has a 3% fall on it. When I place bearings in the model, they appear to ignore the slope of the cap and end up just floating in the air above the cap. They seem to just be taking the very highest point of the pier as the surface level for all bearings, rather than calculating the top surface of the cap at each bearing location.
How do I get these bearings to sit on the cap? Can I manually adjust them somehow without breaking the smarts?
If that isn't possible, what's the methodology for modelling these bearings? Just place some extrusions in there?
Colby, In the upcoming release of OBM, we have an option for crowned caps, hopefully situations you mentioned above would be taken care of automatically.
Thanks Sri. Yes, Steven is right. I think I'll still have this issue in the new release as my issue is related to a parametric cell. I don't think there will be enough flexibility in the Pier tool to create the piers we need all the time. I'll submit a ticket with the files now.
I reported this a few days ago and was told it is a known issue. Definitely one that will be nice when fixed as we use parametric cells for everything. Just have to incorporate the beam seats into the parametric cell for now.
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