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?
I have had mixed results with getting the bearing tool to place the beam seats so they conform with the top of my cap. One solution you can implement is to only use the bearing tool to place the bearings (elastomeric pad most of the time) and build the beam seats into your parametric cell.
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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.
I think his issue was that he was using a parametric cell and the pedestals were not finding the top of his parametric cell cap properly. I have seen the same thing in the past. Colby, make sure you submit a ticket and send them your files so they can take a look.
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.
Thanks Steven, this might be the way to go at the moment. I'll give it a go. Hopefully it gets fixed in the future.