Add Safety Holes - Column ( Modeling )

Tool summary :

  • Adds holes for safety cables to wide flange columns. Select the column you want to add the holes to.
  • The settings that control the safety holes are a " Component " of the selected column. Those settings can also be accessed by opening the Safety Holes - Column window (shown below).

This window opens when you add safety holes. You can use the Model Tree to re-open this window to edit safety holes.

Or you can open the Column Edit window and make your desired changes to the [ Safety Cable Holes ] section.

The holes are positioned along the column based on user-specified distances from the surface of the floor. The floor surface is the " Floor thickness " from the bottom of the column.

  • You can click the Add Safety Holes - Column icon instead of doing steps 2 and 3 of the procedure that follows. The icon can be found in the command group ' Model--Component ' for Toolbar Configuration (classic) or Ribbon Editor (lightning).
  • Preselection method for adding: 1 ) In Modeling , select a wide flange column. 2 ) Invoke Add Component . 3 ) On the custom component selection list, choose " Safety Holes - Column ." 4 ) The Safety Holes - Column window opens. Specify the distance from the bottom of the column that you want the safety holes to be placed, then press " OK ." 5 ) If User and Site Options > Modeling > " Automatically process after modeling operation " is set to ' Process and create solids ', the safety holes will be generated immediately. If not, the holes will be generated on the column the next time that column undergoes Process and Create Solids .
  • If you use in-tool selection -- that is, select the column after selecting " Safety Holes - Column " as the custom component you want to add -- only wide flange columns will be selectable.
  • See, on this help page, to edit or delete the custom component .

Also see :

** For Copy Component and Move Component operations on a Safety Holes - Column custom component, preselection of the component in the Model Tree is required. You cannot select the Safety Holes component in the model. You can select the holes in the model, but not the component.

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   To edit or delete the Safety Holes - Column custom component

  • Setup of default settings is available for the edit window that opens when you add this component. See Home > Project Settings > Job > Plugin Defaults > Component Plugin Defaults .
  • To edit a Safety Holes - Column component, you can open its Column Edit window. A section on that window will be named [ Safety Cable Holes ]. To edit a Safety Holes custom component without opening the Column Edit window, use the Model Tree . The Component Selection Tool can also be used to edit (and find) custom components.
  • To delete a Safety Holes - Column custom component: 1 ) Select the component in the Model Tree . 2 ) Press the Delete key (or choose Edit > Delete ). 3 ) Process and Create Solids .
  • Another way to delete a Safety Holes - Column custom component: 1 ) On the component's Column Edit window's navigation tree (left panel), select " Safety Cable Holes ." 2 ) Right-click and choose " Delete " on the menu. The [ Safety Cable Holes ] section disappears. 3 ) Press the column window's " OK " button to make the deletion of the component permanent.
  • In the Model Tree , the custom component will be listed under the member as Safety Holes - Column when " View By " is set to ' Member piecemark ' or ' Member number '. The Safety Holes - Column component will be listed under its column, after that column's connection components ( Left End and Right End ), and before that column's submaterials, welds and bolts. A column's left end is its bottom end.
  • An alternative to this custom component is the Safety Holes custom component, which lets you place safety holes on a column by designating a distance above a beam that frames to that column. The safety holes are generated on the column, but the custom component belongs to the beam.

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   Safety Holes - Column custom component settings :

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Add safety cable holes: or .

If this box is checked ( ), safety cable holes will be added to each of the " Column face(s) " that you select. Their placement will be governed by the " Floor thickness " and " Distance from floor to 1st safety cable " and the " Center to center distance between safety cable holes ."

If the box is not checked ( ), safety cable holes will not be added.

Add lifeline hole: or .

If this box is checked ( ), lifeline holes will be added to each of the " Column face(s) " that you select. Their placement will be governed by the " Floor thickness " and the " Distance from floor to lifeline hole "

If the box is not checked ( ), lifeline holes will not be added.

Column face(s): Face A and/or Face B and/or Face C . You must select at least one face to get holes.

face A  face C

' Face B ' is web near side of the column.

' Face A ' is the left flange when you are looking at face B.

' Face C ' is the right flange when you are looking at face B.

Face A hole pattern type: Near Side Gage Line or Far Side Gage Line or Both Gage Lines . This applies when ' Face A ' is selected as one of the " Column face(s) ." The positions of the near side and far side gage lines are based on the " Column flange gage ."

' Near Side Gage Line ' places the hole(s) along the near side gage line.

' Far Side Gage Line ' places the hole(s) along the far side gage line.

' Both Gage Lines ' places the hole(s) along both the near side gage line and far side gage line, resulting in your getting twice as many flange holes than you have gotten if you had selected just a single gage line.

Face B hole pattern type: On CL or Left Gage Line or Right Gage Line or Both Gage Lines . This applies when ' Face B ' is selected as one of the " Column face(s) ." The positions of the left and right gage lines are based on the " Column web gage ."

' On CL ' places the hole(s) along the center line of the column web.

' Left Gage Line ' places the hole(s) along the left gage line of the near side of the column web.

' Right Gage Line ' places the hole(s) along the right gage line of the near side of the column web.

' Both Gage Lines ' places the hole(s) along both the left gage line and the right gage line of the near side of the column web, resulting in your getting twice as many flange holes than you would have gotten if you had selected a single gage line or the center line.

Face C hole pattern type: Near Side Gage Line or Far Side Gage Line or Both Gage Lines . This applies when ' Face C ' is selected as one of the " Column face(s) ." The positions of the near side and far side gage lines are based on the " Column flange gage ."

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Hole diameter: The diameter of the safety cable holes and/or lifeline holes (in the primary dimension " Units " or other units ).

Column flange gage: The distance (in the primary dimension " Units " or other units ) . between the near side and far side gage lines on the flange. These gage lines are equidistant from the center line of the column. The gage that is defined here applies when ' Face A ' and/or ' Face C ' are selected as one or two of the " Column face(s) ."

Column web gage: The distance (in the primary dimension " Units " or other units ) between the left and right gage lines on the near side web (face B) of the column. The gage that is defined here is centered on the half-depth of the column and applies when ' Face B ' is selected as at least one of the " Column face(s) ."

Floor thickness: The distance (in the primary dimension " Units " or other units ) from the bottom of the column to the surface of the floor. The " Distance from floor to 1st safety cable " and " Distance from floor to lifeline hole " are measured from the floor surface. In the example below, this distance is ft .

Distance from floor to 1st safety cable: The distance (in the primary dimension " Units " or other units ) from the surface of the floor to the center of the 1st (lowest) safety cable hole. In the example below, this distance is f1 .

Center to center distance between safety cable holes: The distance (in the primary dimension " Units " or other units ) from the center of the 1st (lowest) safety cable hole to the center of the next safety cable hole. In the example below, this distance is cc .

Distance from floor to lifeline hole: The distance (in the primary dimension " Units " or other units ) from the floor to the center of the lifeline hole. In the example below, this distance is lh .

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