Create a precast beam

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On the home screen. Let's begin by creating a new family

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in the new family's dialogue box.

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We'll go ahead here and use structural framing beams and braces.

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Let's go ahead and select open.

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So our family opens up and we can see in plan view,

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we have a number of different reference planes over here.

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The inner reference planes will control the symbolic view of the beam.

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In fact, we don't require this on our precast member.

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So I'm just going to delete that symbolic line.

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The next set of reference planes controlled a cut back of the beam

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and the final set of reference plans is the analytical length of the beam itself.

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This particular template already has an extrusion created for a beam.

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Again, we don't require this so I can select this extrusion

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and we can press delete.

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We'll begin by creating a sweep for our beam

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to do this. Let's go ahead and select the creates ribbon

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and on the creates ribbon, we'll click sweep

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on the context ribbon. You'll note here, we have sketch path.

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Let's begin by creating the path that our sweep will follow.

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So we want the precast member to cut back.

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So I'm going to draw the path between this reference plane here

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and this reference plane here

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to complete the path we can simply click, modify or press escape.

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It's very important that this path is constrained to the reference planes

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to do this. On the context ribbon, I can go ahead and select a line

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and I'm going to begin here by selecting this reference plane

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and then the horizontal line

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I could then constrain that

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I also want to make sure that the length of the line is constrained.

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So I'm going to select this reference plane here

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and then the end point of the line.

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And again, we can constrain that

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and we'll repeat that on the right hand side

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to exit the airline command, we can go ahead and select, modify on the ribbon.

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OK? So our path is complete.

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So we'll go ahead here and select, finish edit mode.

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And now we're going to use a profile

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notice on the context ribbon. We have a panel here dedicated to the profile.

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We can select a profile. If we already had one loaded into rabbit,

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we could create and sketch a profile right here if we wanted to

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or we can load a profile.

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Let's go ahead and select load profile.

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And here we're going to select M 04 underscore 04 underscore profile.

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We can then go ahead and select open,

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you'll now notice on the pull down menu that

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we have the ability to select that particular profile.

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Now, of course,

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to fully understand the profile and see it in the context of the 3D

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view will change to the 3D view to do this in the project browser.

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Double click on view one,

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you may need to zoom to the extent of the view and you can now clearly see your path

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and also the profile,

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you'll note that the profile has come in exactly the right place.

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But of course, if we wanted to offset that in the X or the Y direction,

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we could then add values on the options bar here in the X or the Y field or of course,

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we can do it in canvas here.

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So everything's looking good.

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So we'll go up to our context ribbon and we'll select finish edit mode

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and you can now see our beam has been created

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while the sweep is still selected in the properties pads.

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You'll note here that we can link the material across.

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So here we're going to associate this to a family parameter

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because we started with a structural framing template.

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You'll notice here, we already have structural material available for us.

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So we'd associate that parameter and click. OK.

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I can now deselect the solid by present escape or

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just simply click it in the background of rev it.

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Before we start looking at the dimensional control of our beam

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on the modify ribbon. Let's go ahead and select family category and parameters

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here, I'd like to make sure that the material for model behavior is set to precast.

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So we'll go ahead and set that up

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and also notice here that we have display in hidden views.

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Currently here,

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I could set this to all edges so all edges are displayed.

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But in this case here, I just want edges hidden by other members.

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OK? So that's our family category and parameters set. We can go ahead and select, OK.

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We're now ready to associate the parameters from our profile to the family itself

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to do that. We'll go into the project browser

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and expand the family's folder.

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We'll then go ahead and expand the profiles folder

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and now we'll expand our family and we can see our type here. PC B hyphen 009.

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Let's right. Mouse click over this and select type properties

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in the type properties.

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You'll notice that we have the dimensions controlling our profile.

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I'm now going to begin to associate these two parameters in our project.

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Let's start with sheer

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in the associate family parameters dialer box, I can click new parameter

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and here we can type in the matching name. Sham.

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All of the defaults will remain constant here and we can simply click. OK?

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And then OK, again to the associate family parameter dialogue,

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you'll now notice that the parameters grayed out. And also we have a little

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sign to show us that that family parameter is in fact associated.

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So we'll go through and create the rest of them. So this one is going to be depth.

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This one here will be nib depth

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and then we have NIP width.

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And finally, here we have the width itself.

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OK. So now those parameters have been associated, we can simply click OK?

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On the context ribbon. Let's go ahead and select family types

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and we can now see those family parameters have

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now been added into the family types dialog box.

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Now remember that these values are going to be driven by a catalog.

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We'll now need to ensure that our family has

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exactly the same name as our type catalog.

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So let's go ahead and select, OK.

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On the quick access tool bar, we'll go ahead and select save

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and in the safehouse dialogue box, we can type in the family name.

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So this is going to be mo four

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underscore

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underscore

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precast beam.

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Will they go ahead and select save?