Stiffeners for a curved circular beam's baseplate.

[faijanuddinshaikh]

Hey there, My issue is that I want to put stiffeners around a curved circular beam on its baseplate as shown in the image below. Can this not be done through the macro of baseplate? The macro acts like the circular curved beam is a rectangular beam and the stiffeners are placed at the corners of flanges, not around the circular beam. Can I only do this manually by creating custom connections each time?

Our company's projects are very atypical so I'm worried about this. Is there a family creation system like in Revit? I'm familiar with Revit but had to come to advance steel as Revit can't handle non-linear structures. There's not much study content on Advance steel on Youtube as well, for what I'm looking anyway. Can you suggest study content for a newbie like me?

Thank you.

[sdonohoedesign]

Not everything can be done in the macros, but luckily it only takes a few commands to achieve what you are looking for.

Use the transform elements tool polar array to copy the first set of stiffeners, then manually add a weld to connect these the column

The stiffeners can then be copied to the using the copy with adjustment tool.  Use the baseplate as the reference item, then click on the other baseplates to add to the other columns.

[AleckGiles · Accepted solution]

Hi,

The Tube Base Plate joint will create the 8 stiffeners you want within the joint if you have a circular base plate. If you want a square base plate it will only do 2 or 4 stiffeners. Not perfect but close to what you want.

You could place that joint the delete the joint box and the four corner cuts on the base plate to make it square again.

[faijanuddinshaikh]

I tried what you said and it works. Thank you very much. Also...
I have circular arched beams to deal with, Please see the image below. The stiffener if added would usually appear with proper straight cuts but our autocad modeler models it as shown in the image and the same is fabricated by our dept. How can i make stiffeners curved like that as shown in image? And can you suggest a steel modelling and fabrication dwg generation software for projects like these? We're always dealing with very unique structures bent all over the place and unique connections.

Thank you.

[AleckGiles]

Hi,

No parametric joint will do those stiffeners for you. You will have to model them manually. Make them with a vertical edge overlapping the tube then use element contour to cut them to the tube. Maybe a Custom Connection Template will work and adapt to other positions but I can;t promise it.