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2 On the Properties palette, expand Basic, and expand General.
3 Select a setting for Member type: Beam, Brace, or Column.
Trimming Structural Members
Structural members can be trimmed using 2-dimensional objects called trim
planes. You can manually add a trim plane for a structural member either by
defining its position in relation to the member itself (using the Trim Planes
worksheet available from the Properties palette), or by selecting a plane defined
(or implied) by another structural member, an architectural object of another
type, or linework. You can also configure structural member styles and insertion
tools so that a trim plane is created automatically when an endpoint of a new
structural member is logically connected to an existing structural member or
other object (see Creating a Structural Member Style in the Style Manager on
page 2603).
You can add multiple trim planes to individual structural members, allowing
you to clean up joints between multiple structural members. For example, use
multiple trim planes to angle both ends of a brace in a diagonally braced
frame.
Trim planes can be edited using the Trim Planes worksheet or grip-edited. You
can remove trim planes from a structural member to restore it to its original
dimensions.
NOTE Although trim planes are depicted as square grids when selected for editing,
they are actually infinite planes; thus you cannot use them to notch, cope, or cut
holes in structural members.
2576 | Chapter 31 Structural Members
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