Add Con Lines to Material

Construction Line Add Material ( Modeling or Drawing Editor > press `c` `z` )

Tool summary :

Adds construction lines along edges and corners ( vertex points ) of materials that you select.
In multi-user Modeling environments, any construction lines that you add will be seen by you only.

For wide flange and channel materials, Construction Line Add Material generates a construction line on the web at half of the material's nominal depth .
On a material with a " Rolling operation ," Construction Line Add Material generates construction circles along the edges of the material's top and bottom flanges. This also applies to rolled material depicted on drawings.
Construction Line Add Material can be used to delete material construction lines that were previously added to materials.
See (on this page):
- Quick instructions (for adding)
- Detailed instructions (for adding)
- Deleting MATERIAL construction lines

Also see :

VIDEO Construction Line Add Material is used to add construction lines at half the nominal depth of beams. Vertical construction lines are then placed at regular intervals perpendicular to the beams using BSCL . The intersections of these construction lines ( INCL points) are used to add vertical bracing. (Recorded in SDS2 Detailing , v2017.)

VIDEO Construction lines that were added using Construction Line Add To Material are deleted by doing an Construction Line Add To Material on that same material again. (Recorded in SDS2 Detailing , v7.3.)

Vertex Points (where the construction lines are placed)
User and Site Options > General > Allow multicolored construction lines (lets con lines be color of material)
Construction Line Add (alternative)
Undo (removes all con lines/circles added to material in Drawing Editor )
Plotting (construction lines on drawings are not plotted)

page 1 | contents | model -- con lines | objects > | objects -- con lines

Quick instructions for adding (also see deleting and the detailed instructions ) :

Preselection versus in-tool selection: This example shows the adding of construction lines in Modeling by preselecting a legacy miscellaneous member's main material in Select Items Mode , then invoking Construction Line Add Material . When Construction Line Add Material is invoked first, there is no need to use the selection filter (or the context menu) to select a main material. Also, in the Drawing Editor you must set the selection filter to ' Polygons ' in order to do preselection.

	1 . Select one or more materials that you want the construction lines drawn through. You must select materials, not members.
	2 . Invoke Construction Line Add Material .
	3 . Construction Line Add Material draws construction lines along the edges and through the vertex points of the material.

Construction lines generated on the top flange of a wide flange section using Construction Line Add Material

Detailed instructions (also see deleting and the quick instructions ) :

The following instructions assume that you are using a 3-button mouse. You must do either step 1d (preselection) or step 3 (in-tool selection) to perform this operation. Also, you must preselect or in-tool select one or more materials. If you preselect members (instead of materials) in step 1d, Construction Line Add To Material prompts you to select materials in step 3.

1 . Before using this tool:

1a : In Modeling , make sure that the member(s) associated with the materials you want construction lines through are displayed in one of the three solid forms . In the Drawing Editor , you should Unshorten if you are on a drawing that has been shortened.

1b (if you are going to do 1d) : In Modeling , you may want to set the selection filter to ' Material '. In the Drawing Editor , you must set the selection filter to ' Polygons ' if you want to preselect materials.

1c (to be able to see the construction lines you are adding) : If you are in the Drawing Editor , the display of " Construction lines " needs to be on (checked). In Modeling , the display of " Construction lines " needs to be on.

Select Items bindings (step 1d)

1d (optional) : In Select Items mode with the appropriate selection filter selected, use Select or Select+ (or draw an area box ) to select the materials (or polygons) that you want to add construction lines to. Use Select- if you want to deselect material.

2 . Invoke Construction Line Add Material using any one (1) of the following methods.

Method 1 : Click the Construction Line Add to Material icon, which is pictured above. The icon can be taken from the group named ' Model -- Construction Lines ' ( Modeling ) or ' Objects -- Construction Lines ' ( Drawing Editor ) and placed on a toolbar (classic) or the ribbon (lightning).

Method 2 : If " Modeling layout style " is ' Classic ', you can use the menu system to choose Model > Construction Lines > Add To Material . When " Drawing Editor layout style " is ' Classic ', choose Objects > Construction Lines > Add To Material .

Method 3, 4 or 5 : Construction Line Add Material can also be configured to be invoked using a keyboard shortcut , the context menu , or a mode . For the lightning interface, this configuration is done using Customize Interface . The default keyboard shortcut is c z .

Method 6 : With Construction Line Mode mouse bindings active, middle-click ( Add Mtrl ) while holding down the Ctrl key ( Modeling ), the Shift key ( Drawing Editor ).

3 . Skip this step if you already selected materials (or polygons) in step 1d.

Select Item(s) bindings

3a (if you didn't preselect) : Construction Line Add Material prompts you to use Select Item(s) mouse bindings to select one or more materials. This prompting also occurs if an item other than a material (or polygon) was selected in step 1d. Press the Enter key or right-click ( Menu ) and choose " OK " on the context menu when you are done selecting the material(s).

4 . Construction Line Add Material adds construction lines through all vertex points of the material(s) you selected. On a wide flange or channel beam, a construction line is also placed at half the beam's nominal depth. On material with a " Rolling operation ," construction circles are generated along the edges of the top and bottom flanges. The mouse bindings that were active before you invoked this tool become active again.

Deleting material construction lines

Material construction lines are construction lines ( or construction circles ) that have been added using Construction Line Add Material . They are internally marked to be distinct from other construction lines. To remove them, simply select the material that has the material construction lines, then invoke Construction Line Add Material . This example uses preselection -- see the quick instructions . You can use this method to delete material construction lines in Modeling (as shown) and in the Drawing Editor .

	1 . Select one or more materials which have had material construction lines added to them.
	2 . Invoke Construction Line Add Material .
	3 . The material construction lines are deleted.