Beam Mimics SEO

[Anonymous]

I was just doing an experiment in which I have a single wall with 100 or so Solid Element Operators. My operators are Beams embedded in the wall. However, before I created the SEOs, I clicked on the wall to look at it in 3D and found that the beams were already subtracted from the wall!

I found one other guy in the office that had used this technique before. He believes it's supposed to be a feature, but it doesn't always work. Does anybody have any insight on this feature and perhaps how to make sure it works consistently? This is a great feature and I would like to know more about it.

[TomWaltz]

Beams do that on their own. I think it's a setting somewhere. (I think the user manual explains it a little too)

[Djordje]

Beams vs columns vs walls ...

... since 6.5, AFAIR?

[Anonymous]

Reference Guide page 156. I have stuff highlighted all around it, but not on the paragraph that says, "When Beams cross Walls or Columns, the element of lower priority will be cut in 3D, which means that the intersection part will be removed. The element of higher priority will remain intact."

There's always something new to learn. I remember back to my AutoCAD days when I had been using ACAD since release 9. When release 12 came out I decided to read the entire manual front to back. I found a couple of things that I thought were great, only to discover that the guy sitting right next to me had been using these tricks for years!

I may have some reading to do.

[TomWaltz]

Believe it or not, I do that once in a while: open up the manual and flip through it. It's amazing the stuff you find that's been in-print for years.

... or, at best, it works as an insomnia cure. For fun sometime, drink a liter of Jolt cola and read the AC10 manual... see which one wins out!

[Anonymous]

I was a software programmer a few years back, and I had to read 200-page specifications that described every little feature of the software. I took three or four naps each day.