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When Notching one frame member to another, there is no option to have a gap between the two members. In our line of manufacturing, there must be at least a 1/8" gap for fittiment and welding.
YES! Not only a gap, but modifications to the notch, such as a fillet. Our notch setback is typically 1/2", and they are filleted at the back end (end of notch away from the mating member). In order to accomplish this I have to do a separate sketch and cut/extrude on the frame member, whcih sometimes goes whacked when the frame member changes (not always though).
Would like the ability to set a gap on Notches, the same way you can on a trim. See picture below. Our welders leave a gap for these bolted in pieces, but I want the option to still be able to model them as part of a Frame Generator assembly, and add the gap when producing the notch.
See this discussion for some pictures and workarounds that we discussed.
Basically, the notch function needs some reworking to allow for gaps between members. When you notch a beam to fit in another beam, you don't want the webs or flanges to touch - you need some clearance!
The workaround that I had to come up with was creating iparts for all of my common structural steel and inserting a notch profile, then importing these members into the content center - this seems completely unneccessary and ought to be an automatic function.
When notching a frame member there should be an option to create a distance between the two members. This is only possible when doing a trim or miter. To me this is kind of strange since the need for distance is far more important when using notch. There is no way that i would cut something to the exact shape of another frame member and thinking it will fit when welding it.
We normally use a step-file for cutting the frame member in a laser cutting machine so the measurements is pretty exact.
I have a structural skid design that I am finalizing right now and we are using a combination of 6x12 and 6x15 wide flange beam. The height of the beams are different by about 1/32 of an inch. This is not enough to matter in the real world of welding, but on the drawing when showing individual beam details you get some funky cut details that are not realistic (see below.) If I could set a 1/16 inch offset on the notch, then this would be solved:
i think this option should help you but you must create your own custum notch sketch and to do that you must create your own beam library read and write permission
I created mine: i create 2 new family for each kind of beam I and W , channel and angle, one family with standard notch with soft modification and the other family my custom noth that i have apply proper offset on the notch sketch. if i want to change the notch style i just change de member with FG tool with the custom notch family.
That is a great work around. If I find time I will try this, but I still think the offset within the standard notch command is a great idea that Autodesk should implement.