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Setting Beam connection line in plan ??

Anonymous
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Hi all,
Please see attached.
I'm having 4 beams come together. However I can't get a clear interchange of these.
Please show me how
Many thanks
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Erika Epstein
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The attachment is missing.
Erika
Architect, Consultant
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"Implementing Successful Building Information Modeling"
Anonymous
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Hi all,
Attached file for previous threads. Sorry for that
thanks all
Anonymous
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One possibility, have you checked to make sure one of them is not on a different layer, set to a different intersection group?
And of course Beam priority(s) under Structure?
It's hard for me to tell from your posted image if this might apply, but I thought If you had not read it before, as I had not, you might at least find it interesting.
On Page 236 of 12 Ref Guide, it states:
"Beam junctions are also cleaned up if the crossing or joining Beams run at different elevations. If Beams pass each other in space, without intersecting reference lines, the junction will be cleaned up depending on their respective intersection priorities"
Erika Epstein
Booster
If you select two adjacent beams at a time
Edit>Reshape>Intersect
when you have gone and around and done all of them this way then they will clean up as you wish.

I started withe the one on the left and bottom and did INTERSECT
Then the bottom beam and the one on the right INTERSECT
the one on the right and the one on the top INTERSECT
and lastly the beam on the top and the left INTERSECT
Erika
Architect, Consultant
MacBook Pro Retina, 15-inch Yosemite 2.8 GHz Intel Core i7 16 GB 1600 MHz DDR3
Mac OSX 10.11.1
AC5-18
Onuma System

"Implementing Successful Building Information Modeling"
Anonymous
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Hi all,
Thanks for all of your input.
I'll try and let you guys know. It should work.

Cheers