Structural Shape Tool Set Elevations and Sections

Alex Carnahan · 2024-09-16T15:56:11+00:00

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In consulting and in my current role as a fabricator, I draw/sketch a lot of connection details. I've started creating a tool set of shape sections, but it's tedious. I'd also like to create elevations of shapes that I can shorten and lengthen that are also to scale.

For the elevation, it's proving to be difficult. A wide flange for example is just 4 lines. I can't just make a line type as I can't control the scale/height. I can't group 4 lines as it won't let me stretch the grouping. I can stretch a rectangle, but I can't get the lines to look right.

Has anyone found a solution to this (besides just draw it in CAD).

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Shanoc Halliday

Yes! Coming from a steel background myself, I wanted steel sections and elevations.

So the trick is to draw your 4 lines representing a beam elevation, but don't draw each end.
Then, use the SnapShot to capture the 4 lines (make sure the snaping is very close to the corners, Paste, and save to a ToolSet. once placed, you can stretch the new image as long as you require. if you want ends, (you might have a break line on one end and coping on the other) use the LineWidth that is in Properties to create a boarder.

Be careful with linestyles in that this is a true stretch, so a dashed line for beams in the plan with the web in hidden lines will stretch, but to my mind, it's a markup, and it communicates the requirement.

Where are you based? or what steel sizes are you using? I can help with Australian standards.

Another thing, if you build out a Tool Set, in Revu 21.2, we incorporated ToolSet Search, so think about naming conventions to enable staff to quickly find what they need.

UNIVERSAL BEAMS (UB)_Bluebeam.btx

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Shanoc Halliday

Yes! Coming from a steel background myself, I wanted steel sections and elevations.

Another thing, if you build out a Tool Set, in Revu 21.2, we incorporated ToolSet Search, so think about naming conventions to enable staff to quickly find what they need.

UNIVERSAL BEAMS (UB)_Bluebeam.btx

Alex Carnahan

I'm in Iowa, US. I work for a fabricator where we try to limit the number of shapes we have. I'll try the snapshot idea. I'm very intrigued with the ToolSet Search, I'll have to do some research.

Luke Shiras

I love @Shanoc Halliday's solution and can see it used to solve a lot of common problems people face.

To build on it a little, I would make the "inner" lines a lighter shade of red to help distinguish them from the boundary lines. Plus, if you want to use the "change colors" option, then you can manage them separately.

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