Hi Group,
Advance needs a lightweight option for the joist assemblies or just a joist dummy macro with lightweight representations of joists for reference modeling and GA drawings.
Tekla SDS2 have this feature. There are many times when you need to model joists for reference or GA drawing presentation and the current joist macro creates way too much geometry in the model especially when you are dealing with larger buildings. More refined modeling of rtu frames and any mech equip framing can benefit from having simplified joist reference models.
See the attached picture of the current achievable simplification state of joists in a model. This example has way too much geometry and for anything but a small job will bog the 3d performance down and also create unnecessary numbering.
I know that there are different ways to manually create, explode etc joist models but what we need is an efficient macro to generate simplified joists for reference.
Vote for this please.
Regards
Craig
ECMS