Assembly Add Command

Default Shortcut: a+a

Adds an assembly of materials, bolts, or welds to a member or as it's own miscellaneous member.

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1 . Select a member to add the assembly to.

2 . Invoke Assembly Add using one (1) of the following methods:

Method 1: Click the Assembly Add icon, which is pictured above. The icon can be found on the Material page > Static Components section.

Method 2: Assembly Add can also be invoked using the Find Tool by searching the command name.

Note: Steps 1 and 2 can be interchanged for this command.

3 . Select the assembly that you want and press " OK " or double-click the assembly.

4 . The status line prompts, "Locate assembly :" Left-click ( Locate ) when the target ( ) is where you want the assembly.

5 . The status line prompts, " Confirm assembly location. " Left-click ( Yes ) to confirm the assembly is properly placed. Or right-click ( No ) if you want to go back to step 4 and relocate the assembly.

6 . Press " OK " on the Rotate window to accept the rotation that is shown. Or you can change the rotation, then press " OK ." The " Cancel " button ends the operation.

7 . You get the following dialog for adding the assembly to like members only if there are like members in your current Job.

Check one or the other of these boxes ( ) if you want to apply the assembly to more than one member (the total number of members is listed in parenthesis).

Leave both check boxes not checked ( ) if you want to apply the assembly to only the one member you selected

8 . Right-click ( Return ) ends the command. Left-click places another copy of the assembly on the same member, allowing you to set a different rotation. Middle-click ( Repeat ) places another copy in the same rotation.

  • The materials making up the assembly become submaterials of the member you Add them to. You can add any assembly that is in your current Job. The view that you add the assembly in should be similar to the view in which the assembly was saved. If you are in the same view (relative to the member) as when you Saved the assembly and you Add the assembly at the same reference point you do not have to rotate the assembly into place.
  • You cannot add an assembly to a member that has its " Model completed " date set.
  • To add an assembly as a miscellaneous member press F2 > select " Miscellaneous -- Assembly. "
  • Assemblies can be copied from project to project. To copy these you can run the Copy Project Items command.

  • If you added the assembly to the main material of a legacy miscellaneous member, you may now want to use Match Holes to generate matching holes in the material you have added the assembly to. If you added the assembly to the main material of a beam, column, brace, girt or purlin, match holes and generate bolts is done automatically during Create Solids .

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