Create a cast in place concrete pile

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The Pyle family will have a course level of detail shown in the

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bottom left and also a fine level of detail shown on the right.

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The pile would also have an embedment and allow dimension in in elevation and plan.

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Let's begin by creating our new family

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on the home screen.

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Click new family

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in the new family

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Dier box. In this case, we're going to use structural foundation dot RFT

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and we'll go ahead and click open.

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So once again,

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we have two reference planes that are pinned and also define the origin.

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And if I go to the modify ribbon and I take a look at family category and parameters,

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you'll notice of course that the family

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category is already set to structural foundations.

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And you can see here this pile is always gonna be vertical which is good.

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If you move down a bit here, we can see we've got material for model behavior.

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I'm going to set this to concrete, this is going to be an in situ pile.

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So we might want it to merge with other elements.

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And here I'm going to check shed.

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And the reason for this is when I embed this into a pile cap.

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I want to be able to schedule and find out the coordinates perhaps

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of each of the piles that are embedded in the pile cap.

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So that's what this option will do for us.

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OK? So that's the category set so we can go ahead and select. OK?

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And we now start to create our parametric framework

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to do this. We'll go to the create ribbon

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and on the create ribbon, we'll select reference plane.

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I'll start by using pick lines

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and then on the options bar, initially, I'm gonna set an offset of six inches

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and then I'll create my parametric framework.

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So the idea here is you can see that we've got our two center planes still in place,

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but then we're framing the circular pile with these reference planes

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that will allow me to dimension to these and also align to them as well if I want to.

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Now, of course, for this to work successfully,

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we need to place some equal dimensions on these reference planes.

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So going on the modifier ribbon, I'm going to go ahead and select aligned dimension

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and we'll place some dimensions down on

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the three vertical planes and make them equal

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and the same on the three horizontal planes

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and also make them equal.

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While we're here, we need to set these to equal the diameter of the pile.

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So I'll place two dimensions down and on the context ribbon, I'll select,

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modify to release the dimension command.

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I'm now going to select both dimensions by holding down the control key

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and going down the context ribbon here, we can create a parameter.

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So for the parameter name, I'm gonna call this one pile diameter.

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It's going to be a tight parameter.

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And you can see of course,

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the discipline and the length are grayed

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out because that's been defined by the dimension

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and we'll group this under dimensions.

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Let's go ahead and click. OK.

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And you can now see that's been assigned to those two dimensions.

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If I select one of these reference planes and I now drag it,

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you'll now notice that everything is parametric

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but also set up some reference planes in the front elevation.

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So in the project browser, let's open up the front head of ocean

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and you can see here we have ref

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level, which is the reference level that we place the pile on.

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Now, we want the pile to embed into the cap or the beam.

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So I'm gonna put a reference plane above here and also

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a reference plane below to represent the bottom of the pile.

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So once again, we need to create some more reference planes.

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So we'll click the create ribbon

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and then we'll go ahead and select reference plane.

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Now, this time, I'm just gonna sketch these in.

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So I'm gonna sketch a reference plane here

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that's gonna represent the cut off level.

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And another one down here which will represent the bottom of the pile

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again, we can click, modify to release the command.

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And if I want to, I can go and stretch these down by dragging its model end

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and we'll do the same here.

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And of course, to do the center one, I'll need to unpin it.

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OK.

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So there are our reference planes defined.

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We'll need to create some dimensions here and then

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have some parameters to control these various different values.

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So let's start by going to the aligned dimension tool

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and we'll place a dimension from here to the reference level.

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And also we'll place a dimension from the reference plane at the top here

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right away to the bottom. And this is going to be the pile length.

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OK?

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So once we've done that,

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we can go to the context ribbon and release the modify command

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and now we can add some parameters to these values.

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So let's select this dimension here.

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And again, we'll go up to the context ribbon and select create a parameter

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here. I'm gonna type in pine embedment

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and this will be a type parameter.

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And again, the discipline and type of parameter are grayed out

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and we'll group this under dimensions

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and this one here

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will be the pile lengths.

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OK? So they're all our parameters set up. So let's now model the pilo itself.

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So we'll go back to the reference level plan.

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Let's go ahead and select the create ribbon

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and on the create ribbon, we'll select extrusion

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in the drawer panel. We'll go ahead and select the circle option

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and we'll sketch a circle from the center point of the reference plane

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to this intersection here.

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Now, of course, I need to control this circle with a dimension.

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So we'll go up to the dimension pool down.

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And here, I'm going to choose diameter dimension

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and we'll place the diameter on the pile just here.

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I'll then click, modify to release the command.

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OK. So we can now select that dimension.

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And of course, from the label dimension, pull down,

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we can go ahead and choose pile diameter.

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We already defined that to control the reference planes here.

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So let's go up to the ribbon and we'll finish the edit mode.

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We'll make sure that the pile is correct in the front end of ocean.

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So we'll switch to the front head of ocean.

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We can select our extrusion

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and we want to make sure that the

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extrusion is constrained to the top reference plane.

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And also we drag it down with the shape handle

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and constrain it to the bottom reference plane.

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So let's now take a look at this in the 3D view.

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So in the project browser, we'll open up 3D view one

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and here's our pile.

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Another thing we'll need to do,

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of course is be able to assign a structural material to this.

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So let's go ahead and select the pile

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and you'll notice in the properties of this extrusion we have a material

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here. We can associate the family parameter

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now because we started off with a structural foundation template,

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we already have a structural material created and defined.

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So we'll go ahead and select that and click. OK.

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So let's now save our pile. So we go to the quick access toolbar, click, save,

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we go ahead and name this cast in place pile

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and we'll save this.