What are the basics when making a beam?

[LeeJaeYoung]

Are you fitting it to the end of the pillar?
Or do we need to connect the beams together?

My idea is to only send the beam up to the pillar surface due to the size of the beam.
Organize beams into columns using SEO.

 

[Barry Kelly]

Columns and beams will automatically trim each other based on the building material strengths.

As you introduce more beams, they beams will try to trim the other beams as well - complicating the connection.

If they are all the same building material then they should all trim with no joins (whether you have 2 continuous beams or 4 separate beams all connecting at the centre).

Or you could stop the beams at the edge of the column as you have shown.

Barry.

[Algimantas Kuprenas]

What about beams length ? Is it calculated as trimed or as reference line or its is possible to extract both lengths ?

[Barry Kelly]

Seems left and right length is its overall length (would allow for end mitres).

The 3D length removes the size of anything that cuts the beam - whether if be the column (in this case a 0.1 meter wide column) or just one of the beams if there was no column.

Barry.

[Steve Jepson]

My advice is to model everything as it will be constructed, the cleanup/display needs to match that. 

So what are the Columns and Beams going to be made from?  Concrete, Steel, Wood...?  At some point, there will need to be some Details generated for those connections.  Model with that in mind as well.   And of course, never forget who will be using the Plans you are making, and for what exactly.