- Now that we have our Weldment profiles loaded
we're ready to start defining where our structural members
are going to lie.
Let's go ahead and choose the Structural Member
from the top.
Let's click on ansi inch.
Let's click on s section
and choose a size of a 12 inch I-beam
at 35 pounds per foot.
There it is right there.
And go ahead and choose this upper line right here.
As soon as I do so, notice it defines
that shape of that I-beam and puts it right on center.
Now I have this shape defined, or actually my roof section,
it's actually going to be hitting that edge of that line.
So I want to make sure that I move this I-beam down
and put this corner right here on the corner of the line.
So I click on the Locate Profile button at the very bottom
and choose the point I want to use.
As soon as I do so, notice that moves down
into that corner and then my roof section line
directly comes across it.
Now I could go ahead and add more of these lines
if I wanted to.
Now I want to use the Mirror and Pattern command
so I don't really want to add any more structural members.
This one alone is doing me just fine.
Click OK.
Now let's do one more structural member here
for the vertical.
This time ansi inch stays the same.
I'm going to choose a tube or a square tube.
A five inch tube is going to work out really good for us.
A five inch, quarter-inch wall.
And go ahead and choose a line.
So in this case here I'm going to choose,
any one of these lines will work,
but I'm going to choose this one at the bottom here
at the end.
And notice it defines that line.
Now it's not perfect, right.
We have a few issues here so
first things first, let's locate the profile.
And I want to choose this outside edge.
I want that right there.
And if we look at the top, notice it sticking out a little
past the edge of the I-beam.
And it's sticking right through the
center of the I-beam which both problems
and we're going to deal with those in a little bit.
Go ahead and click on OK.
And there's our first structural member.
Great.
Now what I could do is I could go back and add
structural members for every one of these vertical lines
if I wanted to.
Or, option two is I could go ahead and create
a separate part and make an assembly of it
and include the baseplate and maybe the top piece here
might weld or bolt on.
And that would be another great way to create a
structural member in an assembly and pattern it.
Those are all both options and probably a better way
to do it.
But I want to show you all three techniques
of either bringing in an assembly or patterning it
or just creating it ourself here.
So in this case here what I'm going to do is I'm just
going to choose this one piece here and
I'm going to create it and then I'm going to pattern it.
So first things first, is I want to use this
Trim/Extend tool.
The body or face or plane that's going to trim that boundary
is going to be this one right here.
And notice I do that it gives me a preview.
It's going to cut that piece directly there.
Now I want to make sure that I have enough space
that I can put a plate so I can bolt these things together.
Now I click on Weld gap
which is basically just going to add another little space
between the two.
So I know I'm going to use a half inch plate.
So I'm going to type in .5
and notice it adds that extra spacing in there.
Click on OK.
And there it is.
Now my building is not quite long enough
for this situation here so that's where I can use
the Extend command.
So click on Extend.
Now I can extend out to the end but I know I'm going
to be putting a baseplate directly below here
so before I extend it I want to make sure
that I do an include that baseplate.
So let's do that right now.
Let's go ahead and choose the plane here.
I'll start a sketch
and then I'll draw out a rectangle.
My rectangle that I'm going to draw
is going to be a corner rectangle here,
define the shape,
and if I want to I can always switch over to
a different type of view.
So in this case I can see that I've got,
actually the pieces are over on this side,
and that's a good reason to switch over to the right view
section because I was about to draw it on the wrong side.
So let's go ahead and delete that there.
Zoom out, zoom back in where we really need it to be,
and then start my rectangle.
So I've got my rectangle.
I'm going to refine it to be the same width as the I-beam
so I'll say Colinear.
And then I'm going to add basically just about two inches
from the edge of the square tubing
to the edge of the I-beam, okay.
Go ahead to Features and Extruded Base/Boss
and I'm going to type in the .5.
Now you can add a lot more detail on this.
You can add bolt holes and everything else but right now
we've got a shape and it's a separate structural member.
It's a separate piece.
It will now be in our Cut list.
Here it is.
And I can pattern it just like you could anything else.
Now what I want to do is I want to extend
this piece here to the end.
So let's go ahead up to Weldments, Extend,
Bodies to be Trimmed is going to be this one here,
and up to this face or plane and this is the one
I want to bring up to it.
And notice it extended out to the very edge.
And just like that I was able to extend that piece
out to the edge or past it slightly.
If you look here though we seem like we have a little bit
of an issue
so let's go back and double check what happened there.
Notice we've still go that weld gap turned on
so make sure that you turn that off
so it comes right to the edge.
Click OK and now it's perfect.
Okay, same thing for the bottom.
Now notice this is directly sitting on that top plane.
Now I want to add a little space there
so I want to start a sketch
and I want to start it on the top plane.
So here's the Top Plane.
Let's start a sketch.
And I want it to be the exact same size as the first one.
So make sure I click on over here to hidden line shown.
Here's my same shape that I just had.
I go ahead and just copy that same shape.
Click on the upper corner,
drag it down to the bottom right corner,
snap to that corner.
It's exactly the same size.
Looks good.
Features, Extrude,
we'll type in the .5,
make sure we're going in the right direction,
click on OK, and there it is.
Okay, the problem is that we've got this
going directly through our tube.
So that's where we're going to go back up to Weldments,
we're going to the Trim/Extend tool one more time.
Now in this case here we've got the shape
and we want to trim this structural member
to the top of this plate right here.
To do that let's jump back up here to the Trim/Extend tool.
Click on Bodies to be Trimmed.
I want that one and then the face I want to trim it to
is the top of this plate here
and go ahead and choose that.
Click on OK and that trims it right back up.
Now I can weld that all around
and we should be in good shape.
All right, so there's the bottom plate.
There is the top plate.
Here's the structural member and it's looking pretty good.
Now the only thing is I want is this line here to be
patterned in that way.
And that's what we're going to be jumping into
in the next movie.