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AutoCAD Clip Options

Phil
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AutoCAD Clip Options

Phil
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Hi all

 

I am looking for the best way to achieve the following using the clip command.

 

What I want to do is isolate one steel floor level in a building by clipping say 1 metre above and 1 metre below that level and then viewing the result in plan.  That way I can work on trimming steel at that level without worrying about picking up intersect or end points above or below the plane of the floor steel.

 

In AutoCAD Structural detailing there is a clip command which allows the UCS to be located at the floor level required and then front and back clipping planes can be added above and below that datum.  However that software is now discontinued (shame on you AutoDesk).

 

Anyone tell me the best way to repeat this operation in vanilla AutoCAD please?

 

Thanks

 

Phil

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TheCADnoob
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I cant help you with your immediate problem but have you looked into Advanced Steel or Revit?

CADnoob

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Phil
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Hi CADNoob

 

Thanks, yes I have looked into Revit.  One problem with this is that some of the standard detail in Plant Design, like grated flooring, seems hard to model, particularly when we need multiple cutouts for vessels and piping.

Also, a Revit model cannot XREF into AutoCAD and has to be exported to a dumb block each time a steel change is made.

(I did however like the edit-by-grid-line approach that Revit uses).

 

On the subject of Advance Steel, that is a sore point.  We only just spent £1000s last year on the Plant Suite (including ASD) and they remove the application and demand that the user pays for its replacement - that stinks.  Even if ASteel is the most appropriate, best-thing-since-sliced-bread product out there, how can I go to the MD and ask him to pay for something he's just bought???

What if AutoDesk gets bored of Advance Steel?

 

I'm thinking that we stick to the Plant 3D steel offering and supplement with some lisp to re-create lost functionality (like self assembling multi-flight stairs).

 

Hence the query about the Clip command options.

 

Phil

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stevetamplen
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Hello Phil;

 

Although I am no expert in Revit, once you have the design there, you should not need to return to AutoCAD.

 

As far as doing the work in vanilla AutoCAD, you should be able to use 3D Clip and Section Planes to accomplish your stated goal. That having been said, it would probably be much easier to do that work in Advanced Steel.

 

I hope that helps.


Steve Tamplen

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stevetamplen
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Hi Phil;

 

Did any of the posts get your problem resolved?

 

If so, please hit the Accept as Solution button for the post or posts that helped so that more Community members can profit from the solution.

 

If not, please post back for more help.


Steve Tamplen

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Anonymous
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Yes, this is completely possible using live sections.

 

First, create a live section plane using the SECTION PLANE tool under home (3D Modeling Home).

Second, select the live section and change the visibility setting to SLICE.

Lastly, while the live section is selected your ribbon will allow you to change the slice thickness under the ADJUST panel.

 

Thanks.

 

 

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