A couple of friends asked me how I’ve
done the unistrut frame in the image bellow, so today I will show you how to
author structural members to be used in frame generator. I will admit that the
size, part number, stock number or description were not important for this
project. This was supposed to serve as a guide to our installer and I didn’t have
to supply stock size or lengths for it.
I will
admit that the ipart model was downloaded from Charles Bliss’s website and the
only thing I’ve done was to author it to content center so I can use it in frame
generator.
Another
interesting fact was that for this project the skeleton for the frame was done
in Tube and Pipe module with the “3D Orthogonal Route Tool”. It was much easier
than building individual sketches on a skeleton part.
Once
downloaded the parts from Cbliss.com all I’ve done was to verify that the
iparts table was functional and without errors. Then have authored the ipart
and published it to Content Center.
I have allocated
it to “Other” standard so I can find it easier in Frame Generator. There’s no “Moment
of inertia” or “Section area” information just because I wasn’t interested in
doing FEA and frame analyses and if you need them I would suggest doing the
ipart from scratch from a proper catalog like the “Eaton Strut Sections”catalog.
Steps
to author and publish bellow and the published library next.
I have
done the library for download in case you find the exercise of authoring too
boring.
ADS.
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