benchiko1 Posted February 26, 2020 Share Posted February 26, 2020 Hello All, I am designing the attached catwalk in structural steel using Chief Architect x12. I need assistance as I cannot find steel sections and components in CA. I am running Windows 10. Is it possible to design it in CA. Regards. Ben Catwalk-drw01-Rev03.PDF 20' Catwalk C8 Version - Rev02.PDF Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Signatures Posted February 26, 2020 Share Posted February 26, 2020 3 minutes ago, benchiko1 said: using Chief Architect x12 Please take a minute to update your signature. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chopsaw Posted February 26, 2020 Share Posted February 26, 2020 You may be able to use the railing tool but other than that you are likely just modeling all of that manually. Sections can be drawn and extruded as psolids and then some may need to be converted to solids to use the bolean toolset. Polyline solids can be converted to symbols with stretch planes and saved in the library or just copied and used over. It will take some time but you should be able to do a better job than the original set of drawings by using Chief. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alchemyjim Posted February 26, 2020 Share Posted February 26, 2020 This is one of those instances where it must be drawn with polyline solids. Make sure you create a layer called "Steel Framing" or something similar to place all these pieces. Once you have mastered the polyline solids this is relatively simple. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
benchiko1 Posted February 26, 2020 Author Share Posted February 26, 2020 I'm not that vast in using the polyline solid and bolean toolset. Can you point me in the direction of resources (video, link etc) that can assist me. Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chopsaw Posted February 26, 2020 Share Posted February 26, 2020 Start Here: https://www.chiefarchitect.com/videos/watch/5445/creating-3d-cad-objects.html?playlist=98 However you are getting into some of chief's more advanced tools so there will be a learning curve. Michael has a lot of training video's that pick up where chief's video's leave off but be sure you understand the basics first. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCfxF7fl4jiGw7I7MRpsQq7w Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
benchiko1 Posted February 26, 2020 Author Share Posted February 26, 2020 Thank you very much for the assistance. I'll go through the videos and will let you know if I need additional assistance. Once again thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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