Hello,
I was serching this forum for similar subject and unfortunately can't find anything similar.
I need to model steel construction build of standard components like: Angles, Channels, Rectangular Hollow Sections etc.
I would like to make all these components (Angles, Channels, RHS etc.) as feature cells which parameters I can modify if there is a need, or at least to have opportunity to choose them from the list created via Parameter Set.
When I draw something simple like angle or channel (shape) without circular fillets everything works fine, I can go through the whole process of adding constraints, parameter lists,parameter set, eventually extrude profile and create proper feature cell which then I can edit or substitute with another with different parameters etc.
Here is the problem: when the angle or channel has circural fillets and becames complex shape, after adding all constraints the profile doesn't like to be extruded with feature tools. I was trying to make a group from it, in one case it did work but not to the very end, usually it does't work at all. I'm using old Microstation XM, but at home I was trying to do the same in the newest demo version and it still doesn't want to extrude profile with fillets after constraints are added to it.
Obviously when I create profile without constaints I can extrude it no problem, but then it doesn't have any parameters etc and this is what I'm after of course.
Do you know how to make Microstation add constraints to profile with circural fillets and make it parametric? Next step would be to create Rectangular Hollow Section which is hollow inside (both - section and hollow part have fillets, but I'm not at this stage yet).
Hope what I was written is clear. I do not know how to add screen grabs to the post to make it clearer unfortuantely.
Please advise, or send me to the proper place if you would be so kind. I'm absolutely new to parametric modeling but consider it as very powerfull way of working with Microsatation.
Many thanks AK