Drawing simple bracings and copying them

In this exercise the following topics will be handled :

- Drawing a simple bracing with gusset plates

- Copying a bracing with gusset plates

In this step we will deliberately make a mistake, so that we can learn how to correct that mistake.

- Open the drawing Simple bracing.dwg

- Click on the icon Bracing

- Double-click the bracing Angles

To show the purpose of the setting Fix the top side we will first continue with the default values.

- Click on in the window Fixing the bracing.

- Select the column on intersection E1

- Select the column on intersection F1

- Press in the window for selection of a gusset plate connection.

- Press the <Esc> key to cancel the command

- Then press in the Bracing window

We've aborted this command early because the end height of the bracing is incorrect.
The bracing should stop at the attic floor.

In the next step we wil undo the creation of the bracing in order to draw the correct bracing.

- Press the Undo 2 or 3 times until the incorrect bracing disappears.

- Click on the icon Bracing

- Double-click the bracing Angles

- Choose for to a level for Fix the top side, and select the level Attic Floor

- Click on in the window Fixing the bracing.

- Select the column on intersection E1

- Select the column on intersection F1

- Double-click the connection Rectangular Gusset plate2

- Double-click the bolt for the connection in the middle.

If you don't want a connection here, then you can just press the cancel button. This connection will then be skipped but not the entire bracing.

- Press <Enter> to end the command

This command has drawn several connections for us, and we now arrive at the options of all the new connections (the bracing, the bolt and 4 gusset plates).

Press 3 times to close the windows of these connections.

- Click on the icon SmartCopy

- Select the biggest green sphere of the new bracing.

- Then press <Enter> to confirm the selection

- Select the column on intersection G1

- Select the column on intersection H1

- Zoom in on the girder between grid lines G1 and H1.
Then select the top plane of the girder by moving the cursor to the middle of this plane and then pressing the left mouse button once.

- Then press <Enter> to confirm the plane selection.

- Press <Enter> again to end the command.

The bracing together with all of it's connections were copied.
Parabuild asked for the height of the bracing again through the plane selection method, so the copy does not necessarily have to have the same height as the original.