Beam longitudinal section

[prash1730]

• Namaste,

  Can anyone please help me out with a lisp to draw LS of beam for upto 8 spans giving the following options (can take input from xlsm)

• Draw outline using chosen points from plan layout.

• Top layer bars in each span

• Additional top layer bars in each span

• Bottom layer bars in each span

• Additional bottom layer bars in each span

• Option to change depth of any span

• Curtailments at top and bottom.

• Dimension of each span

• Suport width of each span.

It would be of tremondus help!!

Thank you for your valuable time and support Best regards,

PNP

[Sea-Haven]

What no sample dwg ?

This request is the sort of thing that you should pay for, after all some one will have to spend a lot of time making a dcl front end to suit, asking questions about double reo, and so on. Then draw it all and do the dimensioning and so on, let alone the 4 goes to get all the options worked out.

This is not your beam but a custom program, look at GIF to get an idea of what you could do.

[prash1730]

Namaste,

Thanks a lot for your quick reply @Sea-Haven. PFA typical LS and layout. It can be done using Lisp only i believe. I found few lisps on the net but it was not suiting my requirement. Hence, tried to do it using AI (as i had worked in VBA long back and don't remember much 🙂 ). However, that also seem to be not working properly. 

Best regards,

prash1730

[Sea-Haven]

The dwg is extremely complicated and sorry for me would have to be a paid solution, doing all the bent bar combos would take a lot of thought, hook ends, so many different bar shapes required, single bent bar 1 end or 2, that is just from a minute or 2 looking at your dwg. probably like 10 separate functions required. Then we get onto dims & leaders. Can add say xdata to beams that contains dia and lengths for quantities another big task.

I can see why you want something. 

Reading the leader for bar dia is easy, checking for p/line close to can be done and then get length, useful in case leader does not touch a object.

Ps if you used CHATGP to try to write lisp, give up, it will write code with so many problems people like me throw it away and start again.

[prash1730]

Thank you for your response @Sea-Haven 🙏🙏