User Manual - Page 2557

For AUTOCAD 2011.

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Structural Member Style Wizard
After you create structural member styles, you can drag them from the Style
Manager onto tool palettes to create structural member tools.
Adding Graphics to Structural Members
You can add blocks to the display of structural members as components in
display representations. For example, you can create blocks that represent
stiffener plates and add them to beams or create blocks that represent clip
angles and add them to members.
Beam with added stiffener plates
Trimming Structural Members
Structural members are trimmed using objects called trim planes, which let
you clean up joints between multiple structural members or between structural
members and other objects. Using the Properties palette for a structural member
tool, you can create specific trim planes that are applied when you add a new
member with the tool. Or you can specify that trim planes be created
automatically when you connect the new member to an existing structural
member in a drawing. Once a member has been added to a drawing, you can
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