How to set top of steel elevation

[Anonymous]

I am new to advance steel (2019) and usually figure things out pretty well but this has me stumped. How can i change the top of steel elevation once I have drawn in my beam?

[johnjmbennett]

Think you need to set your level symbol at the model origin, then you can set a relative level value.  

See help page :

https://knowledge.autodesk.com/support/advance-steel/learn-explore/caas/CloudHelp/cloudhelp/2018/ENU...

Cheers

[mick-CNF]

Hi, are you talking about the actual top of steel level in the model or the view direction of the beam in a 2D drawing?

[Anonymous]

In the MODEL. I set the positioning of my beams to be top center. Seems like there should be a simple way of just selecting the beam then going to properties and providing a "Z" dimension that would automatically put it at the height wanted.
In plain O AutoCAD you can change the Starting and ending Z through properties.

[mick-CNF]

You can enter a Z value to move the beam, but I would advise against it as the system line remains where it is.

[ChristianBlei]

Hi,

what you can do is to set the insert position as default.

Look at Sebastian Eiches post (Message 66 Page 3 of Sebastian Eiche's great tipp).

You create a new beam, select the positioning tab, right click into the dialog, a windows opens with values "use default", "positioning", "mirrored", "y", "x". The values you check will be used for the creation of future beams. So if you select UpperMiddle as position and check "positioning" you should get the insert type you want. 

HTH,

Christian Blei

[AleckGiles · Accepted solution]

HI,

If you are drawing the beam at the ground level what is wrong with simply using the Move command to move the beam up the required height. That is what you should do. The system line reference point in the Top Middle is good for horizontal floor beams and such. Never set a Y or Z offset as these move the beam away form the system line. The system line is the datum for all dimensioning. Your drawing will be nonsense if you do that. (At least in the UK build).

If all your beams need to be at a level nowhere near zero then instead of modelling everything miles away form zero, model at ground level and set a datum by placing a Level Symbol in the model and adjusting the Datum value as required.  Your model is always best near the WCS origin. the Level symbol datum will be shared by all Level type dimensions and level symbols in the drawings.

[Goodjp1]

When i right click all i get is default and that is greyed out. Do you have any idea?