Dear All,
Anyone can help me to modeling the space frame in AECOsim or ProStructures, with connection as picture below. I upload one drawing with autocad file model in 3d for refer
Thanks
REF.dwg
Please can you confirm the purpose of the model, is it for structural analysis or design coordination?
Regards
Marc
Dear Marc Thomas,
This model will be use for fabrication include
- The single part of beams
- BOM
- Detail for any sphere
I'm wondering if this is a job for generative components? I did create a model, reference your dwg, used structural hex and hollow tubes and sphere solids. If I knew that I could copy a section of it to fill in the same configuration of the modules of it I would have gotten a lot more modeled.
So just to model it 'by hand' might take awhile, and some care, but it's doable. I'm not sure about the beams, are they a hex all the way through with a hollow tube around them, etc.?
Then I'm not sure the method I used gets the fabrication results you're needing, but if you take a look at the schedules utility—that's the information I'm getting reported.
I used AECOsim Building Designer CONNECT Edition Update 2. Metric units, AU steel table. I spent about an hour (had to move on to my other projects), looking at the photo, thinking about how to model what I thought it looked like, then doing the modeling, basically tracing over the lines in the reference.
It would be good coordination with other disciplines.
Framing Test.dgn
Dear Paul,
Thanks you so much for your reply. In your model the connection made is automatic or manually? Can you show short tutorial for it?
About the fabrication data I needing are
- for beam frame elements: BOM with position, cut length, weight, single part drawing ( if need )
- for space node connector: angle of frame connected to node for all node in model result in excel.
Thanks you so much
I did that manually. I'll get a video done, might take me a few more days to get it done. I think we can get the position, cut length and weight. I don't think we can automatically get the angle of the frame connected to the nodes (the spheres I used in the model).
I'd have to try the single part drawing, we can generate drawings from the model, I'd have to see what the results would be in a model like this to get single parts.
Anyway, I'll see what I can model and report, but again, give me a few days.