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Steel W Beam Library Object

joelsdg
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I'm trying to use the Library Packs (LIBPACK) instead of what I think now could be considered the "legacy" Library (LCF).  In the old LCF, there used to be objects for various steel shapes, such as a W Beam, that could be custom sized by simply entering the desired height and width, or by picking from a lengthy dropdown list of common American sizes (W8x28, W10x12, W44x335, etc.). This was very valuable to us and helped us build very descriptive models, quickly.

I cannot find these library objects (more specifically the W Beam) in the new LIBPACKS.  What I can find, under section 1. BASIC LIBRARY/1.4 Building Structures/Steel Structures/Steel Beams BS is a Universal Beam.  And this appears to be what I'm looking for, BUT the units are all metric, as far as I can tell.  And the predefined sizes dropdown is much much shorter.  If I choose the custom defined option, the properties window opens, but with metric units for Moment, Modulus, etc.  

 

The other common steel shapes also appear to function this way.

 

I am an Architect and by no means a structural engineer, but these objects were a great time saver for us when we had a house with one or a few steel beams, columns or posts.  And it made the model discussion with our structural engineering consultants much  more efficient and effective. 

Am I missing something?  Or has the W Beam object and it's siblings I'm looking for been disappeared?

 

Thanks for any help, 

Joel

AC 6.5-28; macOS Sequoia; 2021 MacBook Pro M4 Max
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Barry Kelly
Moderator

Have you seen this post?

 

https://community.graphisoft.com/t5/Libraries-objects/Who-ate-the-Archicad-Model-Library/m-p/640794

 

Barry.

One of the forum moderators.
Versions 6.5 to 27
i7-10700 @ 2.9Ghz, 32GB ram, GeForce RTX 2060 (6GB), Windows 10
Lenovo Thinkpad - i7-1270P 2.20 GHz, 32GB RAM, Nvidia T550, Windows 11

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Barry Kelly
Moderator

Have you seen this post?

 

https://community.graphisoft.com/t5/Libraries-objects/Who-ate-the-Archicad-Model-Library/m-p/640794

 

Barry.

One of the forum moderators.
Versions 6.5 to 27
i7-10700 @ 2.9Ghz, 32GB ram, GeForce RTX 2060 (6GB), Windows 10
Lenovo Thinkpad - i7-1270P 2.20 GHz, 32GB RAM, Nvidia T550, Windows 11

Thanks Barry, I think I've found something we can use from that post.  Turns out Graphisoft hid a database of custom beam profiles based on the W Beam object I was looking for.  
Time will tell if it works just like the old object, but this is worth exploring.

 

Thanks again for your help, 

Joel

AC 6.5-28; macOS Sequoia; 2021 MacBook Pro M4 Max