Steel Beams + info box Question

[Anonymous]

When I pick a steel beam from AC 9 library and I set it to be for example 2 metres long and I place it on my plan, and select it, I then see on my info box, wrong info about the top and bottom elevation heights. AC thinks that the length that I had set for the beam (2meters) is also the height of the beam (mistake only shown on the info box and not on the 3dmodel). This doesn't help at all when you have to deal with dozens of beams! Does anyone know what I can do about it? Is there a solution?

Thanks in advance

[__archiben]

LukasB wrote:
When I pick a steel beam from AC 9 library and I set it to be for example 2 metres long and I place it on my plan, and select it, I then see on my info box, wrong info about the top and bottom elevation heights. AC thinks that the length that I had set for the beam (2meters) is also the height of the beam (mistake only shown on the info box and not on the 3dmodel). This doesn't help at all when you have to deal with dozens of beams! Does anyone know what I can do about it? Is there a solution?

because graphisoft cheated and simply put a ROTy 90 at the beginning of their column objects?

i think these are being fixed up in newer versions of the objects. as for what you can do about it . . . what are you trying to achieve? are you looking for selection criteria? or changing beam lengths without having to open the settings dialogue? if the latter, try working in the 3D window and using the stretchable hotspots . . . far easier to edit them that way.

HTH
~/archiben

[Anonymous]

It is just matter of faster calculations, when a beam placed on a level,has a height for eg. of 254, you have to calculate the top level instead of seing it written somewhere. It's not a big deal, I was just wondering if I was doing something wrong.

Thank you Ben