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Change the Beams Section Size wn rseernennneS nnnnnteeeeee 36 Use the Selection Filter. Place Horizontal Chevron Braces. Place Vertical Braces Modify Additional Attributes «nen Create Named Groups. s Add Members to a Named Group nce Define Named Group Symbology .. Ares and Tapered Member$ wns 6 Change Default Settings... Place Are Members... | FrameWorks Plus Metric Tutorial 3Table of Contents Copy Are Members... ornse Place Bracing between the Trusse: Create User Sections... Create Arbitrary Section. Create Custom Section Table Z Create a Table from an Existing Table ... Dump Existing Tables to ASCII Files. Create Section Table from ASCII File. Place Tapered Members . Model Manipulation . ‘Compute Planar Cutbacks... Apply Work Point Offsets to Vertical Braces .. Apply Work Point Offsets to Horizontal Braces. Define User Cutbacks... Define SmartCuts. Apply Fireproofing to Members Modify Fabricator... Place Slabs, Walls, and Holes. Open the Solids Model Attach a Model to Another Model. Modify the Foundation View... Place a Slab on the Ground Floor. Place a Slab on the Second FIOOT nn Place Footing: Place a Shear Wall. Place a Doorway.. Place Holes in Slat Place the Tanks cum Place Cutouts Place Block Holes. Generating Reports. Define a Report Format un Create the Linear Member Material RepOtt...a..sss Create Solid Member Reports... Drawing Extractions Create a View with a Drawing Seale... Create the Frozen Views. ‘Compose Drawings. Create a Drawing File ‘Compose the Drawing using Reference Files ‘Compose the Drawing using Drawing Composition Perform an Associative MOVE -ncnnonnnnn eS 4 FrameWorks Plus Metric Tutorial jFf Table of Contents Update a Drawing... eet 125 5 Create a File for SmartPlant Review. 126 Analytical Commands Place the Live and Dead Loads. Place Wind Loads. Place Load by Point... } Set Member Releases... Modify Supports Create Mapping File 7 Create Analysis Input Deck... j For GTSTRUDL wset8! seo For STAAD users: Place Stairs. ] Now What? Index, ennnninnninnnnnnrnneseel39Preface Preface FrameWorks® Plus is the structural engineering package from Intergraph® Corporation. It is a three-dimensional product that is MicroStation®-based. This tutorial demonstrates the various aspects of a structural project using FrameWorks Plus. This tutorial is not intended to be a comprehensive reference document for the FrameWorks Plus product. See the FrameWorks Plus Reference Guide for detailed information on Frame Works Plus commands. To learn about the concepts and features in Frame Works Plus, refer to the Frame Works Plus Overview. Prerequisites Before you start working through this tutorial, you need to load MicroStation and Frame Works Plus. Send documentation comments or suggestions to PPMdoc@intersraph.com. EE — — aa 6 Frame Works Plus Metric Tutorial7 Getting Started Getting Started What is FrameWorks Plus? FrameWorks® Plus is a MicroStation®-based structural modeling application from Intergraph®. Frame Works Plus is designed to improve the efficiency of structural engineers, designers, and drafts people by automating the modeling, design, end drafting processes. Using FrameWorks Plus, you can model three-dimensional structural steel and i concrete buildings and generate construction documents, such as structural framing plans, elevations, and material reports ‘The structural model can be displayed as an annotated line drawing or with three- dimensional surfaces. The 3-D model allows you to do a visual interference check, as ‘well as provide realistic renderings of your proposed designs for customer presentations. FrameWorks Plus can also be used to create input for and read the results from structural analysis and design programs such as STAAD or GTSTRUDL. What will 1 do? Following step-by-step exercises, you will create, build, and load a simple structural model. The project is executed from start to finish -- from layout to the creation of construction drawings and a material take-off. While working through this manual ‘you will learn how to: ] + Create plan and elevation views + Place columns, beams, braces, slabs, and walls 1 + Copy and move members + Place member cutbacks } + Place and label loads + Compose a drawing to be plotted + Create an input file for the STAD or GTSTRUDL analysis program } FrameWorks Plus Metric Tutorial 7Getting Started What am | building? ‘When you are finished working through this tutorial, your model will look similar to Continue to the first activity. aT 8 FrameWorks Plus Metric Tutorial coProjects and Seed Models Projects and Seed Models In this section, we will create a FrameWorks Plus project, a seed model, and define the default settings and view in the seed model. When you are finished, you will know how to: Create a FrameWorks Plus project Create a FrameWorks Plus model Create plan, elevation, and 3D views Create view grids Define basic member, view, and analytical settings ES FrameWorks Plus Metric Tutorial 9Projects and Seed Models Create a Project ‘The FrameWorks Plus Manager Utilities > Create > Project command creates FrameWorks Plus projects. A FrameWorks Plus project consists of several directories 1 and files, To organize and manage these files, FrameWorks Plus uses a directory structure to store the various file types. A project can contain one or several individual models. ] 1. Click Start > Programs > FrameWorks Plus > FrameWorks Plus. 7 2. Inthe Frame Works Manager dialog box, change directories to e:lusers. Ifyou do 1 not have a c:\users directory, or you want to put the project elsewhere on your computer, you can select any directory to which you have read and write access. Just remember where you put your project. Click Utilities > Create > Project. 4, Type myproject for the Project name. 1 Note j + FrameWorks Plus project names can be up to 14 characters long and | contain the underscore (_) character. No other special characters are J allowed in project names. 5. Click Create, | 6. Click OK to acknowledge that the project was created. 7. Double-click myproject in the directories list to open the project. ' Here is a quick review of the project directory structure, Nene ead 10 FrameWorks Plus Metric TutorialProjects and Seed Models \data - The data folder contains the project's config. dat file. The config. dat file 7} contains the project's customized environment variable settings. The config.dat file is | copied automatically from ..\iwplus\data (the product folder) when the project is created. For more information about the environment variables in the config.dat file, see Appendix A: Customizing Frame Works Plus in the FrameWorks Plus Reference Guide, \drw - The drawing folder contains 3D design files used in drawing composition. ‘Drawings can be composed in any 3D design file, including the FrameWorks Plus model file itself. Ifa separate drawing file is used, it should be stored in this subfolder. \esl - If special nonstandard steel or concrete sections are used on a project, they can be created and stored in a user section library. These user section libraries are stored ] in this subfolder. IF you are creating arbitrary sections, the cell library file (ist.cel) is, | stored here also. The ist.cel file is copied from the ..fwplustes! folder to this project folder when the project is created, | \frz - When saving frozen views to a separate design file, those design files are stored in this subfolder. This folder is also used to store files generated for the SmartPlant® Review product and to store the interference envelope files generated for the project. \int - This is the interface subfolder where files used for interfacing FrameWorks Plus to other structural engineering products ate stored. These interface files include input files for analysis packages such as GTSTRUDL and STAAD and the Common Structural Database (CSD) files. Additionally, FrameWorks Plus creates map files in this folder that are used in the analysis interface process. \mod - All structural model design and database files for the project are in this, subfolder. | \rpt - The report subfolder is used to store all reports created for models in the project. Continue to the next activity. | FrameWorks Plus Metric Tutorial 1.Projects and Seed Models Edit the config.dat File ‘When you open a model in myproject, Frame Works Plus reads the config. dat in the project's data folder, which the software copied there from the ..\frplusldata folder 1 ‘when you created the project. In this activity, we are going to edit the myproject’s config. dat file to use project specific grade.dat and attributes.dat files. 1. Open Windows Explorer. 2. Copy grade.dat, attributes dat, and all the sc files from .finplus\dara to the c:lusers\myprojectidata folder. The default installation location for FrameWorks 1 Plus is c:lwin32app\ingr. 3, Using Notepad, or another ASCII editor, open c:\users\myproject\data\config.dat. 4, Edit FW_DATA=8(PROD)DATA\ to read FW_DATA=c:\users\myproject\datal 5, Save and exit the config.dat file. ‘Now when you open a model in myproject, FrameWorks Plus reads the grade.dat and attributes. dat files in the ..\myproject\data folder instead of in the .\ivplus\data folder. Continue to the next activity. —S— 12 FrameWorks Plus Metric Tutorial |Projects and Seed Models Edit the attributes.dat File FrameWorks reads the attributes.dat file for certain member attribute values that you can customize. In this activity, you are going to edit the project's attribures dat file Open Windows Explorer. 2. Using Notepad, or another ASCII editor, open cAlusers\myproject\datalattributes.dat. Scroll down through the file until you find the Fabricator Name entries. Change "ABC" to "Huntsville Stee!" Change "XYZ" to "Fones Steel", Save and exit the attributes.dat file. Right-click the artributes.dat file, and then select Properties. Make attributes. dar read-only. Click OK. YX Caution + Ifyou plan to write a Steel Detailing Neutral File (SDNF) from a project, ‘you must take administrative action to safe guard the attributes. dat file ‘from unauthorized editing. FrameWorks Plus writes the code listed value (1, 2, 3, and so forth) of the attribute value to the SDNF, not the text string, Because the code listed values are written to the SDNF, you must send the attributes.dat file with the SDNF so that the receiving party can correctly interpret the SDNF. After the SDNF has been written, you cannot edit existing values in the attributes.dat file. The only edits to the attributes.dat file that would be okay would be to add values to a list. Continue to the next activity. ee nana ‘FrameWorks Plus Metric Tutorial 13Projects and Seed Models Create a Seed Model Seed models provide a terrific and time saving way to ensure that all your models in the same project have the same basic settings and views. For the rest of this chapter, we will be defining a seed model. In our seed model we will: Create the standard views we will be using to create the tutorial model. 7 + Define grids in those views. 1 + Define member and model settings. ; + Create standard load cases and load combinations. J 1. In FrameWorks Plus Manager, browse to the myproject\mod folder. 2. Click Utilities > Create > Model. | 3. Tae seedmodel for the Model Name, Model names can be up to 10 characters 4, Select Meters for the Units. J 5. Select INN for the Force Units. 6. Select MAISC for the Standard Section Table. 7. Select None for the User Section Table. 8, Leave Third Party Software set to STAAD and the Design Code set to AISC-ASD. 9. Click OK. Frame Works Plus creates the model seedmodel. 10. Click OK to acknowledge the model was created. 11. Double-click the mod folder. 12, Double-click the seedmodel.mod file to open the seed model. Continue to the next activity SET 14 FrameWorks Plus Metric Turorial1 Projects and Seed Models Create Three-Dimensional Views “There are three types of Model Views in FrameWorks Plus: Plan, Elevation, and 3D, In this activity, we will create a 3D isometric view and a 3D dimetric view. A 3D view is the most generic of the three view types and can be defined in any } orientation, such as isometric, but can also be defined in an orthogonal orientation { (top, south, and so forth). Members can be placed in a 3D view, but unlike plan and elevation views, there is no active depth or working plane associated with the view definition. Using a 3D view is sometimes necessary for structures with intricate bracing, such as transmission towers, or iregular structure geometry. Like the other views, you can define specific member display symbology for the 3D Model Views. The surface representation is frequently used in 3D views. Note + The first view you create in a FrameWorks Plus model should always be a 3D Isometric view. The PDS® and FrameWorks Plus batch propagation routines use the first 3D view defined in a Frame Works Plus model to generate the propagated view. Click View > Create. Set View Type to 3D. Set View Orientation to Standard ISO. ‘Type Default 3D Isomeiric View in the Description field. Set Fitted View Border Widths Left/Right and Top/Bottom fields to 0:500:0. perenne i ee eel ‘FrameWorks Plus Metric Tutorial 15Projects and Seed Models 6. Click Apply, and identify a MicroStation view. FrameWorks Plus creates a new view named Isometric. 7. Set View Orientation to Dimetric. ‘Type Defiault 3D Dimetric View in the Description field, Click OK, and identify a MicroStation view. Frame Works Plus creates a new view named 3D View. Continue to the next section, If you need to exit, click File > Save FWP Settings in the FrameWorks Plus command window and File > Saye Settings in the MicroStation. a 16 FrameWorks Plus Metric TutorialProjects and Seed Models Create Plan Views A plan view is used to lay out vertical structural columns and framing members in a 2D plan view. Plan views are often created for each floor of a structure, both for layout purposes and for creation of the framing plan drawings. However, plan views do not have to be horizontal. For example, a plan view can be created in a non- horizontal orientation to create a framing plan for a sloping roof. Plan views have an active depth and a display depth range, which control member placement and display in the view. We are going to create three plan views in our seed model: one at the ground or first floor elevation (0 meters), one at the second floor elevation (4 meters), and one at the roof elevation (9 meters). Any new models we create using this seed model will have these three plan views and the 3D views you just created in them. 1. Click Tools > Views. 2. Click Create view on the FW Views tool box. 3. Type Roof Plan View for the Description. 4. Set View Type to Plan. 5. Set View Orientation to Standard Top. 6. . For the Z field, type 9. This specifies the top-of-steel (TOS) value for this floor as 9 meters. Notice the default view name also changes. FrameWorks Plus Metric Tutorial 17Projects and Seed Models 7. Click Apply to create the plan view. FrameWorks Plus prompts you to Select MicroStation view to Set. 8. Place a data point in any existing MicroStation view to view your plan view. FrameWorks Plus creates the plan view at the defined elevation and renames the MicroStation view to the FrameWorks Plus view name. 9. Type Second Floor Plan View for the description. 10. Type 4 for the Z field. 11. Click Apply, and then select another MicroStation view. 12. Type Ground Floor Plan View for the description. 13. Type 0 for the Z. field. 14, Click OK, and then select the Isomet FrameWorks Plus replaces the Isometric view with the Framing Plan @ TOS 0 view, You can activate the Isometric view later by using the View > Set command. W. 15, Save this setup using the Pile > Save FWP Settings command. Otherwise, the Frame Works Plus view definition is not saved when you exit FrameWorks Plus, and you will have to Set (reactivate) the view the next time you enter the software, Continue to the next activity, | SE 18 FrameWorks Plus Metric Tutoriala Projects and Seed Models Create Grid Lines Grids are created by defining how many horizontal and vertical grid lines that you need and how far apart the lines should be placed. Grids can be placed at any plan ; angle, relative to the X-axis, so that you can generate a rotated plan if needed. ? Frame Works Plus creates a basic set of orthogonal grids. If'a more elaborate grid ] layout is required, you can create it by using any MicroStation command (move, copy, rotate, mirror, extend, and so forth) on one or more FrameWorks Plus grid lines 1 within the grid set. We are going to place the same grid in all three plan views: ] + Three horizontal lines, spaced 4 meters apart, with numeric tags 1 + Five vertical lines, irregularly spaced, with alphabetical tags 1 1. Click Tools > Grids, Click Place Plan Gri on the Grids tool box. | 3. Select the Number of Lines field, and type 3. A Press Tab to move to the Spacing field, and then type 4. Press Tab again to Set the Axis option to Vertieal to define the vertical lines in the grid For the Number of Lines field, type 2 ‘Tab to the Spacing field, and then type 3. Define three more lines: two at 4 meters (Number of Lines ~2, Spacing - 4) and ‘one at 3 meters (Number of Lines - 1, Spacing -3). ema | FrameWorks Plus Metric Tutorial 19Projects and Seed Models As you define the lines, the cumulative number of lines and their spacing is shown below the key-in fields. If you make a mistake, click Clear to erase the data and 4 redefine the lines. i 9. Click OK to create the grid Frame Works Plus prompts you to Select Target View for Grid. 10. Place a data point in the Framing Plan @ TOS 9 model view. Frame Works Plus creates the grid lines at the view's active depth and adjusts the view range so that the entire grid is visible. 11. Click Copy Grid. 12, Select the Copy Labels option on the Copy Grid settings dialog box. 13. Select any grid line in the grid you just placed 14, Click again to accept the highlighted grid. i 15, Place a data point in the Framing Plan @ TOS 4 view. A 16. Select any grid line on the Framing Plan @ TOS 9 view again, and then click again to accept it. 17. Place a data point in the Framing Plan @ TOS 0 view. Now that we have the 3D and Plan views created, we are ready to create the Elevation views. Continue to the next activity. 20 FrameWorks Plus Metric Tutorial} Projects and Seed Models | Create Elevation Views : ‘An elevation view is used to create an elevation or section view of a model. This is | typically a view created by "passing a vertical plane" through the 3D model at a i defined point, Often, elevation views are created along an existing column grid line. Elevation views can also be used for placement of vertical bracing in a structure. Like 7 plan views, elevation views use an active depth and display depth for placement and j display purposes. 7 We will be creating four elevation views during this activity. a 1. Opena fifth MicroStation view using the appropriate MicroStation command (Window > Open/Close) | 2. Click Window > Tile on the MicroStation menu so you can see all five views. 3. Click View > Create. ] 4, Set View Type to Elevation. J 5. Set View Orientation to South. 6. Set Define Active Plane by to Point. J FrameWorks Plus prompts you to Specify point for view active depth. 7. Snap to and accept grid | in one of the plan views. J 8. ‘Type South Elevation view at Grid J for the description. =" ff re Vie J | | fie iad [South Elevation South Fevalon view 260 200 tl few Content coe | @ [oso : ‘@ [oso — ied Views Border Wi : ‘5000. (05000 | View Direction a : f Tie mee || J 9. Click Apply. ES FrameWorks Plus Metric Tutorial 21—_ — ———————E 22 FrameWorks Plus Metric Tutorial Projects and Seed Models FrameWorks Plus prompts you to Select MicroStation view to Set. 10. Identify a MicroStation view to use for the elevation view. You will need one of the FrameWorks Plus Plan views throughout this activity (Framing Plan @ TOS 0, Framing Plan @ TOS 4, or Framing Plan @ TOS 9), so do not select one of the plan views. FrameWorks Plus creates a new model view named South Elevation. 11. Set View Orientation to North. 12, Set Define Active Plane by to Point. BNote + You must reset the option to Point even though it is set to Point already. FrameWorks Plus prompts you to Specify point for view active depth. 13, Snap to and accept grid 3 in one of the plan views. 14, Type North Elevation View at Grid 3 for the desoription. 15. Click Apply. Frame Works Plus prompts you to Select MicroStation view to Set. 16. Identify a MicroStation view to use for the elevation view. Again, make sure you do not select the Plan View you have decided to keep. Frame Works Plus creates a new model view named North Elevation. 17. Set View Orientation to West. 18. Set Define Active Plane by to Point. FrameWorks Plus prompts you to Specify point for view active depth. 19, Snap to and accept grid A in one of the plan views. 20. Type West Elevation View at Grid A for the description. 21. Click Apply. FrameWorks Plus prompts you to Select MicroStation view to Set. 22, Identify a MicroStation view to use for the elevation plan view. W. Do not select your FrameWorks Plus creates a new model view named West Elevation. 23. Sct View Orientation to By Grid Line. FrameWorks Plus prompts you to select the grid line, 24, Select grid line B, and then accept it. FrameWorks Plus prompts you to Specify point for view direction.Projects and Seed Models 25, Place a data point between grid lines B and C. This data point defines the direction that you are looking at the elevation view as if you were standing on the grid line. In this case, looking east. 26. Type Elevation View at Grid B for the description. ] 27.Click OK. FrameWorks Plus prompts you to Select MicroStation view to Set. 7 28, Identify the last MicroStation view that is not your Plan View. ~ FrameWorks Plus creates a new model view named Elevation @ Grid B. 7 Continue to the next activity. ] | } FrameWorks Plus Metric Tutorial 23Projects and Seed Models Place Elevation Grids Now that we have the elevation views created, we need to create elevation grids using the Place Elevation Grid command. 1. Click Tools > Grids. Click Place Elevation Grid. 3. Click Apply to accept the default parameters. FrameWorks Plus prompts you to Select Grid Line. 4, Select Grid 1 in the plan view, and accept it FrameWorks Plus prompts you to Select Elevation View for grid. 5. Place a deta point in the South Elevation view. FrameWorks Plus creates and then fits the grid in the view. 1 10S 900 sm Ses Frat Plin 8 TOS GO| Franny Pian @ Test Goo ~~ i Franing Pen 3 wield i o © © © © 6. Click Apply on the dialog box again to accept the default parameters. FrameWorks Plus prompts you to Select Grid Line. 7. Select Grid 3 in the plan view, and accept it, Frame Works Plus prompts you to Select Elevation View for grid. 8. Place a data point in the North Elevation view. FrameWorks Plus creates the grid. 9. Click Apply again. 24 FrameWorks Plus Metric TutorialProjects and Seed Models 10. Select Grid A in the plan view, and accept it. 11. Place a data point in the West Elevation view. FrameWorks Plus creates the grid. 12. Click OK on the dialog box. 13, Select Grid B in the plan view, and accept it. : 14, Place a data point in the Elevation View @ Grid B view. | FrameWorks Plus creates the grid. 15, We do not need all five MicroStation views any more, so close the fifth view. 16. Click Window > Tile again to tile the four remaining views, Continue to the next activity. 1 | FrameWorks Plus Metric Tutorial 28Projects and Seed Models Modify View Styles } In this activity we are going to select an existing view preference, modify it, and then save it under a new name. i ‘These different styles can be used in other projects. The styles are saved in the Yiplusidatalf.rse file, (The drive letter, and preceding string on your machine would vary depending on how you loaded FrameWorks Plus.) When a suitable series of view styles are created on one computer, the fv.rsc file can be copied to other computers running ErameWorks Plus or put on and accessed through a server. You 4 may want to save a copy of the file in a location other than the product delivery | directory as a backup. When new FrameWorks Plus software is loaded, the file that ‘ you modified is overwritten if itis in the product directory. 1. Click View > Create. j The Create View dialog box displays. 2. Click File > Load from the Create View dialog box. The Load Preference dialog box displays. 3. Click the MP ModelDraft preference. In this preference, members are displayed with a bold orange member line and a cross section icon at the start of the member (end 1). 4, For the Description field on the Create View dialog box, type MP with setbacks 5. Click Symbology > Linear > Beams from the Create View dialog box. The View Symbology - Beams dialog box displays. ‘This dialog box is used to define how members display in a view. 6, In the Graphies list, select Sparse. ‘The sparse representation settings appear in the Attributes part of the dialog box. The top group of settings is for the member line, and the bottom group is for the section icon. 7. Change the Setback values for the member line (both end 1 and end 2) and for the | ‘cross-section to 5.0. - 8, Select all Setback as % Len attributes. 7 9. Change the line weight of the cross section to 2. By clanging the Setback valuc and the line weight, you are able to see the start and end of amember easier because a visible gap between the member ends now ] SE 26 FrameWorks Plus Metric TutorialProjects and Seed Models exists. The cross-section located near the analytical end 1 of the member helps you when setting member releases or supports that are different at each end. This will also make it easier to locate concentrated or partially distributed loads along the member’ length, as measured from end 1. The graphical setbacks do not affect the reported material centerline-to-centerline length, or the analytical member's length. 10. Click Apply to save your changes. 11. Click Type > Columns from the dialog box. 12. Make the same changes to the column settings (steps 6 to 10) that you did for the beam settings: changing the setbacks and the cross-section weight. 13. Click Apply to save your changes. 14, Modify the Vertical Brace settings and the Horizontal Brace settings the same way. Make sure you click Apply before moving on to next member type. 15, When you are finished changing the view symbology, click OK to return to the Create View dialog box, 16, Click File > Save As, and type MPsetback. 17. Click OK to save the new view preference. 18. Click OK on the Create View dialog box. 19, Place a data point in a view. Continue to the next activity. FrameWorks Plus Metric Tutorial 27Projects and Seed Models Define Member Settings ‘Now that the views and grids are defined, we can move on to the member settings. ‘The Settings > Defaults > Linear commands are a part of the FrameWorks Plus operating parameters. The Save FWP Settings command stores these parameters in the model database, You can modify the parameters with this command or by using the Settings > Member > Attributes or Settings > Members > Orientation commands. There are two basic member parameter categories: attributes and orientation. The attributes relate to general properties and nongraphical information about the member such as name, section size, class, and material. The orientation parameters define the exact geometric placement of the structural section upon the member centerline (placement line). These parameters include orientation vector (OV), cardinal point (CP), rotation angle, and reflection. 1. Click Settings > Defaults > Linear > Beams. 2. Verify that the default beam settings are set as follows: Start Section is W410X85 End Section is off Name is set to Auto Class is set to 0 Material is set to Steel Grade is set to A36 Priority for Endl and End 2 is 8 CP is set to 8 Rotation is set to 0 Reflect is off OV is set to Z-axis Click More Attributes. Select Huntsville Stee! as the Fabricator Name. Click OK, Click Apply when finished. 7. Click Type > Columns. ‘Type 17360314 for the Start Section size. Verify that the remaining default column settings are set as follows: End Section is off Name is set to Auto Class is set to 0 Material is set to Steel Grade is set t0 A36 Priority for Endl and End 2 is anee eee EEE 28 FrameWorks Plus Metric Tutorial{ Projects and Seed Models CP is set to 5 Rotation is set to 0 Reflect is off OV is set to X-axis . 000000 5.0000 j¥: [0.0000 10. Click More Attributes. IL, Select Huntsville Stee! as the Fabricator Name. 12, Click OK. 13. Click Apply when finished. 14, Click Type > V-Braces, IS. Set CP to 2. 16, Set Rotation to 90. 17. Type 2L102X102K6.4 for the Start Section, 18. Click More Attributes. 19, Select Huntsville Steel as the Fabricator Name 20. Click OK. 211. Use the deftult setting for everything else, and click Apply to save your changes. 22. Click Type > H-Braces. 23, Verify tht the default horizontal brace settings are as follows: Start Section is set to C250X30 End Section is off Name is set to Auto Class is set to 0 “Material is set to Steel FrameWorks Plus Metric Tutorial 29Projects and Seed Models Grade is set to A36 Priority for Endl and End 2 is 13 CPis setto 8 Rotation is set to 0 Reflect is off OV is set to Z-axis 24, Click More Attributes. 25, Select Huntsville Steel as the Fabricator Name. 26. Click OK. 27. Click OK. 28, Click File > Save FWP Settings to save the new settings. Continue to the next activity. aE 30 FrameWorks Plus Metric Tutorial1 Projects and Seed Models | Define Load Cases By defining load cases in the seed model, you save time by not having to define them | in each new model you create in the project. In addition, you can write your load 5 cases and load combination definitions to an ASCII file for portability between FrameWorks Plus projects. Do not save the ASCII file to the product folder, as it will be overwritten when you reinstall FrameWorks Plus. While you can create new load cases as you are placing loads, you have more control 7 over the load case symbology (color, weight, level) if you create the load cases before placing loads, 1. Click Tools > Analytical. 2. Click Create Load Case. a 3. Create a dead load case using the following values: Load Case Name: dead Load Case Type: Dead Load ] Color: 3 (red) | Level: 21 | FrameWorks Plus Metric Tutorial 31sf Projects and Seed Models 4, Click Save to save the load case. ‘Now create three more load cases: Live, Wind, and Self. Use the following values for each: ‘Name | Type Color | Level | Direction | Factor Live [Live Load [2 (green) [22 Wind | Wind Load _| 5 (purple) | 23 Self_| Self We 5. Click Save after defining each load case. Then click Cancel to dismiss the dialog box. 6. Click Settings > Symbology > Loads. Change the load type button at the top of the dialog box to Distributed. 8. Set the scaling attributes to: L1=025 FI=0.1 | L2=1 F2=10 1 These scaling attributes control the size of the load graphic in proportion to the load magnitude. In other words, the larger the load magnitude, the larger the load graphic. 9. Select Use Load Case Color. 10. Select Use Load Case Weight. 11. Click OK to save your changes. 12. Click File > Save FWP Settings. 1 Continue to the next activity. felaar —— ———— ———— 32 FrameWorks Plus Metric Tutorial }Define Load Combinations Projects and Seed Models FrameWorks Plus can define load combinations and write those load combinations to the analytical deck. For the seed model, we are going to create two load combinations. 1. Click Create Load Combination is The Load Combinations dialog box displays. ‘Type comb! for the Load Combination Name. Set Load Combination Type to Algebraic. ‘Set Global Multiplier to 1.00. Click Save. Type comb? for the Load ‘Combination Name. 8. Sct Load Combination ‘Type to Algebraic. 9. Type 0.75 for the Global Multiplier. 10, Click Dead, then +, then Live, then +, and then Wind. 11. Click Save. 12. Click Cancel, "DEAD LIVE WIND" Continue to the next activity. Click Dead, then the + on the keypad, and then Live. FrameWorks Plus Metric Tutorial 33Projects and Seed Models Copy Seed Model ] {All the time and effort that you have put into the seed model is about to pay off. In this activity we are going to create two new models using your seed model. One model, called Zinear, contains the beams, columns, and braces in your model. The other model, called solids, contains the concrete ot solid members of your model. Note } + While you can model linear and solid members in the same model, using a : separate model for solid members is the recommended method. } 1. Click the MicroStation File > Close command, , The graphics environment closes and the FrameWorks Manager dialog box a appears. Click Utilities > Copy > Model. Click Browse for the From field. Select seedmadel.mod from the list, and then click OK. Click Browse for the To field. ‘Type linear in the Files box, and then click OK. 7. Click OK on the Copy FrameWorks Model dialog box. Click OK to confirm that you want to copy the model. FrameWorks Plus creates a new model called Linear. mod. 9. Now create another model called solids from your seed model using the Copy ‘Model command. 10. Click Cancel to exit the FrameWorks Plus Manager dialog box. Continue to the next activity. See eed 34. FrameWorks Plus Metric TutorialBuilding Basics Building Basics In this section, we will build a simple steel-frame two-story building. When you are finished, you will know how to: + Place columns individually and in groups + Place beams + Place framing members + Place vertical braces i 1 j ‘FrameWorks Plus Metric Tutorial 35Building Basics Open Linear Model Click Start> Programs > FrameWorks Plus > FrameWorks Plus. 2. Inthe FrameWorks Manager dialog box, change directories to e:lusers\myprojectimod Note + Ifyou created your project in a directory other than e:\users, substitute that directory path for c:lusers. 3. Select the model named Linear. mod BD epptcect E> mnod 4, Click Open. If you need to stop working through the tutorial and exit Frame Works Plus, save the view setup and active parameters by selecting the File > Save FWP Settings ‘command. You should also use the MicroStation File > Save Settings command to save the design file setup. Continue to the next activity. RS 36 FrameWorks Plus Metric TutorialBuilding Basies Place Individual Columns Notice that the grids you created in the seed model are in this model. Though not absolutely necessary, grids are extremely useful as references for drawing dimensions. They also help in the modeling process by providing reference points at which you can piace structural members. | In this activity you will learn how to place individual columns in a model. 1. Click View > Set. | 2. Select Framing Plan @ TOS 4 from the list of Model Views. 3. Click Set, and then plece a data point in a MicroStation View. o@ ©Oo © @ © 4. Set the 3D Dimetric view. While you will be working in the Framing Plan @ TOS 4 view, you have a better view of the model in the 3D view. 5. Click Cancel to dismiss the Set View dialog box. i 6. Click Tools > Placement > Linear from the Frame Works Plus menu. i 7. Display the Member Attributes and Member Orientation dialog boxes. Both of these are on the FrameWorks Plus command window under the Settings > Member command. The two member parameter boxes are used to define the section size, orientation. and other member placement parameters. These values can be changed at any time. But for now, use the default settings to place columns on the grid. 8. Position both dialog boxes and the Place Member tool box so they do not interfere with the grid view. 9, Click Place Column <= on the Place Member tool box. ‘FrameWorks Plus Metric Tutorial 37Building Basics 10. On the Place Column dialog box, set the top elevation to 5 meters and the bottom elevation to 0 11. Point to the grid in the plan view. A scaled column footprint moves with the cursor. When you move close to a grid intersection, the footprint jumps (or snaps) to the intersection. This is the AutoSnap feature of FrameWorks Plus working. 12, Move the column footprint to grid intersection A-1, end place a data point in the design file (the mouse’s data button is usually the le mouse button). A column is placed labeled with the column name C_I and section W36. FrameWorks does not display 360 because the default setting is to abbreviate the section name to 3 characters. You can change this setting using the Modify View command if needed. Oeste feet Stet 66 © 68 13. Place two more columns at grid intersections B-1 and C-1 Continue to the next activity. 38 FrameWorks Plus Metric TutorialBuilding Basics Place Multiple Columns For regular floor plans, which use the same member size and length for most or all ] columns, you can place the columns all at once by using a fence. The columns are placed at all grid intersections inside @ fenced area, Click Fence Shape “= and place a fence around the remaining floor grid 2. Click Place Column, An alert box displays prompting for confirmation. need FrameWorks Plus Metric Tutorial 39Building Basics 3. Click OK on the Alert box to place the columns. Goo @ @ EA 4, Click Fence Shape @ again to dismiss the fence. 5. Click Tools> Manipulate. Click Delete Member. x 7. Delete the column at grid intersection A-2 (should be the column named C_6).. We do not need this column. Continue to the next activity. Se 40 FrameWorks Plus Metric TutorialBuilding Basies 1 Place Single Beams Beams are placed by defining the beam ends using the same AutoSnap feature (the ] cursor snaps to the grid intersection closest to the cursor) that was used for colurnns. 1. Click Place Beam, | FrameWorks Plus prompts you to Enter Position of End 1. 2. Inthe Framing Plan @ TOS 4 view, place a data point at the grid intersection A-L | to define the first beam end FrameWorks Plus prompts you to Enter Position of End 2. | 3. Move the cursor toward grid intersection B-1. Notice the second beam end moving with the cursor, lengthening and shortening the beam as you move the cursor in the view. This is called dynamic placement mode, also known as rubber- | Banding. 2 ® © @ © | 4, Move the cursor to the B-1 grid intersection, and place a data point. Notice the beam is placed, but the prompt still reads Enter Position of End 2. This is : because FrameWorks Plus allows you to place beams sequentially, from point-to- point, between grid intersections. End 2 of one beam becomes End I of the next : beam. However, by pressing reset (usually the right mouse button) you can define a different beam end 1 if you need to. FrameWorks Plus Metric Tutorial 41Building Basies 7 7 5. Continue to place beams along grid line 1. Respond to the Enter Position of End 2 prompt by placing a data point at C-1, D-1, and E-1. 7 i i i i 1 i i i i i i i i irate is -O i 6 ®@ © © © 6. Right-click when you are finished placing the four beams. Continue to the next activity. SS 42 FrameWorks Plus Metric TutorialBuilding Basics Copy Members Using Selection Sets Ifeach column row has similar framing girders, you can quickly lay out the framing } plan by placing a single beam row (as you just did) and then copying the beams to the ! rest of the second floor. As with similar MicroStation commands, all FrameWorks Plus modification and manipulation commands work in two modes: i + Single element mode i + Selection set (multiple elements) mode - Selection Sets | A selection set is an element group that has been identified as a set using the Element, Selection command. This element select set can then be manipulated as one. When the Element Selection command is chosen, the cursor changes from a cross-hair to an arrow with a circle at the end, This element selection tool (cursor) can then be used to identify the elements you want to manipulate or modify (such as copy, move, or edit) 1 To select elements one at a time with the selection tool, place a data point on the | element. Handles display at either end of the selected element to indicate that it has been selected. Add other elements to the set by holding down the CZRL key as you 1 place data points on the elements. This method allows you to select random elements ] for the selection set. To remove a selected element from the selection set, reselect the clement and the handles disappear. ] To select several elements at one time with the selection tool, use the selection tool's | fence select feature. Press and hold the data button, and drag a rectangular fence around the elements that you want in the set. Handles display on each member in the set, : Copy the girders on grid line | to the rest of the second floor using the fence select feature. 1. Click Element Selection —1 on either the MicroStation Main or FWP tool box. FrameWorks Plus Metric Tutorial 43Building Basics 2. Press and hold the data button, and drag a fence around the beams on grid line 1 Do not worry if the grid line and labels are included in the fence. Frame Works Plus commands only manipulate the elements in the set that are appropriate for the command selected and ignores the rest. In this case, only the members (beams) are affected. The columns are not included because they are only partly displayed and therefore not entirely inside the select set fence. 26 ® © 4, Click Copy Member. tH Because the selection set was active when the copy command was selected, an alert box displays, and the four beams in the selection set highlight. ify that you want to copy the highlighted beams. (If you click Cancel, you reject the set and revert to single copy mode.) 6. Type 2 in the Number of Copies field because there are two horizontal grid lines at equal spacing. FrameWorks Plus prompts you to Enter Point for Copy Origin 7. Snap to the left end of grid line 1, and then place a data point to accept the tentative point. The selected beams dynamically move as you move the cursor. a 44 FrameWorks Plus Metric TutorialBuilding Basies FrameWorks Plus prompts you to Enter Point for Copy Destination, 8, Snap to the left end of grid line 2, and then place a data point to accept the tentative point, The beams are copied to grid lines 2 and 3. 9. Reselect the Element Selection cs tool, and place a data point in any view. This dismisses the four-beam selection set. 10. Finish placing the primary beams on the first floor (along the vertical grid lines A through E) using the Place Beam ZA |command. Remember that you can press reset to define a new end 1 poi eae When you finish placing the beams, close the open tool boxes and dialog boxes except for the FrameWorks Plus menu. If you need to exit, do not forget to: FrameWorks Plus Metric Tutorial 45Building Basies + Click File > Save FWP Settings to save the FrameWorks Plus parameters, and + Click File > Save Settings in the MicroStation command window to save the MicroStation setup. Continue to the next activity. eed 46 FrameWorks Pius Metric Tutorial 1Building Basics 7 Copy Beams to Another Floor Because the primary girders on the roof are going to be similar to those on the second floor, use the Copy Member command (in the Manipulate tool box) to quickly copy all of the girders ftom the second floor to the roof. 7 1. Using the View > Set command, set the Framing Plan @ TOS 9 view if it is not ] already set, 2. Create a selection set containing the second floor beams by using the Element Selection £8 too! to drag a fence around all of the beams, Click Copy Member Click OK on the alert box when it displays. ‘Type 1 for the Number of Copies. Specify the copy origin by identifying a reference point on the second floor grid. (Hint: Snap to the left end of grid line 1 because you will need to identify a corresponding point on the roof.) : © © © © © | EEE Tete et ate CO ; 66 6 6 6 As you move the cursor, yellow dashed lines that represent the beams to be copied ua move with the cursor. BY aw FrameWorks Plus Metric Tutorial 47Building Basies 7. Snap to the location on the roof grid that corresponds to the origin point identified ‘on the second floor grid (the left end of grid line 1), SG 0" 8 @ | oy : rt y © area ace | - ee oe 8, Ine3D view, verify the correct position of the dynamic display, and press the data button to copy the beams. eo ® @ @ © =A eli i oo © } 6 e © Continue to the next activity, 48 FrameWorks Plus Metric Tutorial jeeBuilding Basies Change the Beams Section Size ‘You may not want the same size beams for the roof as you used for the second floor. To change the section size for the roof beams, we will use the Modify Section command. 1. Click Tools > Modify to activate the Modify Member toolbox. 2. Click Modify Section. Click Caneel on the alert box because the members in the selection set are the beams on the second floor. 4, Type anew section size (for example, W410X75) in the Start Section box. You can review the section library to see what is available, Click the Select button to display the Select Section dialog box. Type ¥740* to list all available W410s. Select the section you want from the list, and then click Select to tell FrameWorks Plus to select that section. 6. Click Modify Section = again, and then click OK when the beams on the roof highlight and the alert box displays. FrameWorks Plus changes the sections and updates the section labels. © ® © & © 7. Dismiss the selections set. Continue to the next activity. FrameWorks Plus Metric Tutorial 49Building Basies Place Columns on the Second Floor You could copy the ground floor columns to the second floor the same way that you did the beams. However, you will probably want the second column in the vertical stack to be a different size and/or length than the first. Instead of copying the columns and then modifying them, placing new columns is just as easy ‘You need the Member Attributes dialog box again, so reactivate it (from the Settings menu). 1. Click Place Column. 2. Change the Top elevation to 9 and the Bottom elevation to 5. 3. Inthe Member Attributes dialog box, type 17360147 for the Start Section. 4, Place a regular block fence. 5. Click Place Column The columns are placed on the second floor. oo @ @@ > gt pa perth Pts = Le dad ® : eat i -O | around the entire second floor grid. J again, and then click OK on the alert box. 6. Click Place Fence Block = to dismiss the fence. 50 FrameWorks Plus Metric TutorialBuilding Basics 1 7. Using Delete Member & delete the second floor column at grid intersection ‘A-2 (the only second floor column without a first floor column supporting it). We do not need this column. ] Continue to the next activity j FrameWorks Plus Merrie Tutorial 31Building Basies Place Horizontal Braces ‘Now that all the main support columns and girders for this simple two-story building are in place, the next step is to create intermediate framing members on the roof. In this model, we are going to place framing members in the three right-most bays. The bay on the left end of the building (between grid lines A and B) will not have framing members. Before we begin, you will need: + The Place Member tool box + The Member Orientation dialog box + You need to zoom in ¥J on the lower bays of the Framing Plan @ TOS 9 view. ' py Ley be i ie, We wats Hy “ise Wats . lo hc IS. = = fe een; Hsehees i i i a a © 1. Click Place Horizontal Brace members. 2. Change Delta TOS to -17em by keying in -0:170:0. This indicates that the bracing is to be vertically offset down by 17 centimeters from the nominal TOS or elevation (in this case, down from 9 meters). to define the properties for the framing ‘52 Frame Works Plus Metric Tutorial 1 | iBuilding Basics 3. You can place horizontal braces individually, but because you need to frame the entire bay, placing more than one ata time is faster. Click Place Framing ff Members. £512] This command places equally spaced framing members between girders or supports. 4. Type 2 the Number of Members field to place two framing members between tie primary girders, Select the first support beam for the framing members (the beam along grid line B berween grids 1 and 2). FrameWorks Plus prompts you to Select Support Girder 2. 6. Select the other support beam for the framing members (the beam along grid line C between grids 1 and 2). ‘The framing members are displayed using temporary graphics. This allows you to modify either the number of members or any of the active placement parameters. 7. Select and clear the Reflect parameter on the Member Orientation dialog box. Notice how FrameWorks Plus changes the placement orientation of the tentative bracing, 8. Click Accept (on the Place Framing Members dialog) to permanently place the braces in the model once you have the members oriented correctly. " eae cee get We Waa? hse WHOS “Haeners Hy: t The ho (176.00 mm) ~--4= S CIE CUg FrameWorks Plus Metric Tutorial 53Building Basies 9. Now place framing braces in the two bays to the right on the lower half of the roof in view Framing Plan @ TOS 9. f ap vet L vaeett et "Was aS "ge Wain “tga ae Continue to the next activity 54 FrameWorks Plus Metric Tutorial7 Building Basies | Use the Selection Filter You could complete the upper half of the floor by repeating the command three more times. However, there is an easier and faster way, especially since you are creating a | symmetrical model. You can select everything on the floor to be copied and filter the unwanted elements. When you have very large models, this is an extremely fast and 1 efficient way to place many identical members. This also makes it possible to 1 manipulate and modity specific sets of members that match defined filter criteria, | 1. Click Element Selection, gl and drag a fence around the entire roof grid. You are going to filter everything but the horizontal braces you just placed in the 4q bottom half of the plan view. | 2, Click Settings > Select Filter > Settings to display the Selection Filter dialog box. Using this dialog box, you can filter members by type, name, section size, class, or named groups, 3. Click Filter On to tur on the selection filter. 1 4, Turn on the Type filter criterion by clicking On in the type area. d 5. Make sure the Comparator is set to and select Horizontal Brace from the option list. | oy | Corea | You have specified that all FrameWorks Plus operations using the selection set should operate only on members that match the filter criterion Member Type = Se FrameWorks Plus Metric Tutorial 55Building Basies Horizontal Brace, thus filtering out everything but the horizontal braces. Conversely, you could instead specify Member Type '= Horizontal Brace (!= 1 means not equal) to filter out all horizontal braces. | 6. Click OK on the Selection Filter dialog box. 7. Click Copy Member. Only the horizontal braces highlight, indicating that all other members have been removed from the selection set by the selection filter. j 8. Click OK on the alert box to confirm that you want to copy the 6 members. FrameWorks Plus prompts you to Enter Point for Copy Origin. 9. Snap to the left end of grid line 2 and accept. FrameWorks Plus prompts you to Enter Point for Copy Destination, 10, Snap to the left end of grid line 3 and accept. FrameWorks Plus copies the horizontal braces to the upper half of the framing plan Continue to the next activity. ————— ne 56 FrameWorks Plus Metric TutorialBuilding Basics. ] Place Horizontal Chevron Braces In this activity you will place horizontal chevron braces in the Framing Plan @ TOS 4 | view. We need to use a different size section for these horizontal braces, so the first 4 step is to change the member settings. 1. Click View > Set, and set the Framing Plan @ TOS 4 view. t @ Note + Ifthe view description is missing in the view title bar, click Fit or Refresh to display the view description, Click Settings > Defaults > Linear > H-Braces, Set CP to 8. Set Rotation to 0. Set OV to Z-axis. Select the Start Seetion box, and then type L76X76X9.5. Click OK. Click Utitities > Keyin on the MicroStation menu. In the MicroStation key-in field, type ky=4 This key-in sets MicroStation snap settings so you can snap to the mid-point of 4 members. j 10. Click Place Horizontal Brace. 11. Type -0:70:0 for the Delta TOS. | 12. Snapping to the center of the beams, place 8 horizontal chevron braces as shown , below in the Framing Plan @ TOS 4 view. per ay ayy FrameWorks Plus Metric Tutorial 57Butlding Basics Place Vertical Braces ] ‘Now that the horizontal braces have been placed, we can move on to placing the vertical braces in the model. You should be getting pretty good at placing members 1 by now, so the instructions in this activity will not be as detailed. i L. Click View > Set, and set the South Elevation, North Elevation, and West : Elevation views if they are not already active. | 2. Click Place Vertical Brace. Place vertical braces in the South Elevation, North Elevation, and West Elevation views as shown below. 108.9000. Froning Pros Frag Pi @ F080 Ce South Elevation's Vertical Braces ES ‘58 FrameWorks Plus Metric TutorialWest Elevation's Vertical Braces | Continue to the next activity. If you need to exit, do not forget to click File > Save | FWP Settings in the FrameWorks Plus command window and File > Save Setting in the MicroStation command window. 1 SS ‘FrameWorks Plus Metric Tutorial 59Building Basics Modify Additional Attributes 1 In this activity, we are going to edit the design status attribute of members in the North Elevation view to existing. You will use this attribute in a later activity to locate and then add members to a named group. } Click View > Set and set the North Elevation view if it is not already active. Click Settings > Select Filter > Settings. Set the Type filter to be != to Vertical Brace. Click OK. Drag a selection set around all the members in the North Elevation view. veer 6. Click Tools > Modify > Modify Additional Attributes. 5 7. Click OK on the alert box to modify the 18 members. (All the beams and columns but not the vertical braces.) 8. Select the Design Status check box. (Only the attributes that are selected are modified.) 9. Select Existing from the design status lst. 10, Click OK. 11. Clear the selection filter settings. Continue to the next activity. SE 60 FrameWorks Plus Metric Tutorial |Building Basics Create Named Groups FrameWorks Plus provides a feature called Named Groups that allows you to group members based on logical associations. Named groups are tracked on a project basis instead ofa model basis allowing you to assign members in different models to the same named group. Then when you attach models to one another, you can manipulate the named grouped members across the project as one group for reporting and so forth. You can define up to 1,024 named groups in a project. In this activity we will be creating a named group called Existing Building. In the next activity we will assign the beams and columns in the North Elevation view to the named group and change the display symbology. 1. Click Tools > Modify to activate the Modify tool box. 2. Click Named Groups. The Named Groups dialog box displays. Click Add. Type Existing Building for the name. FrameWorks Plus Metric Tutorial 61Building Basics 5S. Click Add then close the Add Named Group dialog box. 6. Close the Named Groups dialog box. Co ue to the next activity. ed 62 FrameWorks Plus Metrie TutorialBuilding Basies q Add Members to a Named Group ‘Now that the Named Group is created, we can assign the beams and columns in the ‘North Elevation view to that Named Group. Instead of individually selecting the beams and columns however, we are going to use the Locate Element By Attributes command to find all the members with a design status of existing. Click Utilities > Locate Element > By Attributes. In the Attribute Options area, select the More check box. Click the More button that appears. Select the Design Status checkbox to indicate that you want to search based on design status. . Select Existing from the design status list. Click OK on the Locate By Additional Attributes dialog box. | 7. Click OK on the Locate Element dialog box to locate the members with a design 4 status of existing. t ] 8. In the Results Behavior area, select Add to Named Group. d 9. Click the Select button that appears. 10. Select Existing Building from the list of named groups. 11. Click Apply on the Named Groups dialog box. 12. Click OK to process the 18 members. 13. Click OK to apply the controlling named group. 14, Click Close on the Named Groups dialog box. 15. Click Cancel on the Locate Element dialog box. 55 16, Optional: Click Named Groups Bl select the Existing Building named | group, and then click Show All to verify that all the beam and columns in the 1 North Elevation view are in the named group. : Continue to the next activity | FrameWorks Plus Metric Tutorial 63Building Basics Define Named Group Symbology With members assigned to the Named Group called Existing Building, we can now manipulate those members as a group using the Selection Filter (Settings > Select Filter > Settings). You can also change member symbology based on the Named Group to which they belong. In this activity, we will be changing the symbology of the Existing Building Named Group in the 3D Dimetric view. 1. Click View > Set and set the 3D Dimetric view if it 2. Click View > Named Groups > Create. is not already active. The Named Group Symbology dialog box displays and FrameWorks Plus prompts ‘you to select a view. 3. Place a data point in the 3D Dimetrie view. FrameWorks Plus displays all Named Groups that have a member assigned to them in the view and prompts you to select a Named Group. 4, Select Existing Building from the list. 5. Select the Apply to all option in the Linear Members grouping. This action defines that you want all the members in the Named Group to have the same symbology. If this option is off, you can define different symbology for the different member types. Click ADL. Select the Surface representation, ‘Change the Color to 2. Click OK on the View Symbology dialog box. 10. Click OK on the Named Group Symbology dialog box. FrameWorks Plus changes the Surface symbology for all the beams and columns in the Existing Building Named Group to green. Continue to the next activity. EEE 64 FrameWorks Plus Metric TutorialAres and Tapered Members Arcs and Tapered Members In this section you will be raising the roof by placing are-shaped members. You will 1 also be placing some tapered members (a tapered member has two different section sizes at either end of the member). When you are finished with this section, you will know how to: j + Place arc members + Create tapered members + Create a User Section Library . + Open a User Section Library + Create a User Section + Review section properties 7 + Join two members + Split a single member into two members } e————— | ‘FrameWorks Plus Metric Tutorial 63Ares and Tapered Members Change Default Settings Before we start placing arc members, we need to make some changes to the default settings for vertical braces and beams. You could use the Member Attributes and ‘Member Orientation dialog boxes to make changes at placement, but because you are placing several members, itis easier to change the default settings one time Click Settings > Defaults > Linear > V-Braces. Change CP (cardinal point) to 10. Change Rotation to 90. Change the OV (orientation vector) to X-axis. ‘Type 2L51X64X6.4 for the Start Section. Change the Class to 9. Awe RE SEREE WeReSE I i Mies] fer i de: [A5, aint | et J rronbo |, [ooenn jz: Taco a 2. | OV: a a 7. Click Apply. 8. Click Type > Beams at the top of the dialog box. 9. Type WTI80X32 for the Start Section box. 10. Change the Class to 9. 11. Click Apply. 12. Click Type > H-Braces at the top of the dialog box. 13. Change the CP (cardinal point) to 3. 14, Change the Rotation to 180, 15. Select Reflect. SS 66 FrameWorks Plus Metric Tutorial 1Ares and Tapered Members 16. Type L102X102X12.7 for the Start Section. 17. Change the Class to 9. ; 18, Click OK. 19, Click View > Set, and then set the Elevation @ Grid B view. 3 Continue to the next activity FrameWorks Plus Metric Tutorial 67Ares and Tapered Members Place Arc Members In this activity we will be placing arc members to create a rounded roof. Frame Works Plus arc members are created from existing generic MicroStation ares (you need to place MicroStation arcs and then convert them to Frame Works Plus members). You will be placing a vertical brace first, and then placing the actual arc member. 2 Note + You will be working in the Elevation @ Grid B view throughout this activity. 1. On the MicroStation menu, click Utilities > Key-in 2, Click Tools > Placement > Linear. 3, Click Place Vertical Brace. & FrameWorks Plus prompis for the first end point of the vertical brace. 4, Click at grid intersection TOS 9" and grid line 2 (the top of the center second floor column). 5, Type d!=0,0,1.5 to define the second end 1.5 meters up the Z-axis. og iss Fearing Pian © 7085 Click the MicroStation Pace Are command. 2 7. Change the Place Are Method to Edge. ‘Snap to and accept the top of the top column on grid line 1 (top right comer) for the first arc end point. 68 FrameWorks Plus Metric Tutorial easAres and Tapered Members 9. Snap to and accept the top of the vertical brace that you just placed for the point on the arc radius. 10. Snap to and accept the top of the top column on grid line 3 (top left corner) for the second arc end point. 4 11, Click the FrameWorks Plus Place Are command, a 12, Change Are Type to Beam. 13, Select the Delete Graphics option. This will delete the generic MicroStation arc element after creating the FrameWorks Plus are member. FrameWorks Plus Metric Tutorial 69Ares and Tapered Members 14, Select the MicroStation arc. Tos 900 Fearing Pan & 108.5 8% Fienaeasa ® 15. Click Place Vertical Brace. Z 16. Place two more vertical braces from the top of the center column to the quarter- points along the are member. Make sure you snap to the arc member and verify that you get the correct quarter-points. Frating Bias © 1EO o © © Continue to the next activity. 70 FrameWorks Plus Metric TutorialAres and Tapered Members Copy Arc Members With one arc-shaped truss placed, we need to copy it along the top of the building. Because you placed the truss’s arc and vertical brace members with a class of 9, we can use that class setting to filter out the rest of the building and just copy the truss. Asan alternative, you could have created a name group for the truss and filtered out the rest of the building using the named group. Set the 3D Dimetric and Framing Plan @ TOS 9 views. Click Settings > Select Filter > Settings Select the Filter On option. Clear the Type option. Select the Class option, and then set the Comparator equal to 9. Click OK. Click Element Selection. eraye Drag a selection fence around the entire model in the 3D Dimetric view. 9. Click Copy Member. | i 10. Click OK on the Alert box to copy the 4 members of the are truss. LL. Type 2 for the Number of Copies, 12. In the Framing Plan @ TOS 9 view, snap to and accept grid ine B. 13. Snap to and accept grid line C. 14, Type J for the Number of Copies. 15. Snap to and accept grid line B again. 16, Snap to and accept grid line E. Continue to the next activity. FrameWorks Plus Metric Tuorial 71Ares and Tapered Members Place Bracing between the Trusses With the arc trusses in place, we need to add some bracing between the trusses. To do that we will use the Place Framing Members command. . Set the 3D Dimetric view if it is not active. 2. Zoom in on the left two arc trusses. 3. Click Place Horizontal Brace. 4, Set Delta TOS to 0:0:0. Click Place Framing Members. 6. Type 3 for the number of members. 7. Select the arc on the left truss. 8. Select the arc on the right truss. 9. Click Accept to place the framing members. Ae 10, Now place horizontal braces between the rest of the trusses. When you are finished, your roof should look like the following: B Note = The second floor braces were deleted from the picture, Continue to the next activity. 72. FrameWorks Plus Metric Tutorial LoAres and Tapered Members Create User Sections Now that we have finished the roof, we are ready to move on to placing a few tapered members. However, before we can do that, we need to create a user section that we are going to be using User sections are saved to a User Section Library. You can create sections using any of the standard steel or concrete shapes. You can also create arbitrary sections (where you define the section shape) and save them to the User Section Library. To keep things simple for this activity, we will just create a User Section Library and one custom I-seetion, 1. Click File > FrameWorks Plus Manager. The FrameWorks Manager dialog box opens. The active directory is the project's ‘mod directory. User Section Libraries are saved in the project's \esl directory. So, you will need to mave up to your project's esl directory before you can create the library. ZNote + The File> FrameWorks Manager command is not available if you run FrameWorks Plus from PDS. However, you can still activate Frame Works Manager from the Start menu. 2. Double-click myproject in the ir to move up one 's > Create > Section 4, Type mytable for the Section Table ‘Name. 5. Make sure Units is set to millimeters. 6. Click OK. Click Cancel to exit FrameWorks Manager. 8. Click File > Section Library. 9. Click Attach. 10. Select the mytable.dat file; then click OK. 11. Click OK to exit the dialog box. 12. Click File > Save FWP Settings so that ‘your user section library is attached automatically the nest time you open the model. ‘FrameWorks Plus Metric Tutorial 73Ares and Tapered Members 13, Click Utilities > Sections > Create. 14, Make sure Section Types is set to Steel and Shape is set to F-sections. 15, Type myT for the Name. 16. Type 700 for the Depth. 17. Type 180 for the Flange Width, 18. Type 16 for the Flange Thickness. 19. Type 9.65 for the Web Thickness. anne Gee aL Dep 70 000000, fl 8, 00000 | jckness {16000000 __ i 550000 (tresie | 20. Click Create. 21. Click Caneel to exit the dialog box. 22. Click Utilities > Seetions > Review to review the section properties that FrameWorks Plus calculated for your section. 23. Set Library to User. 24, Select I section. 25. Select MYI from the list area; then click Properties. FrameWorks Plus displays the properties for myl. 26, Click Cancel Continue to the next activity SSE 74 FrameWorks Plus Metric Tutorial ]Ares and Tapered Members Create Arbitrary Section In addition to standard section shapes, you can also create arbitrary section shapes. Be ‘sure to read about the Create User Section command in the FrameWorks Plus Reference Guide for important information regarding arbitrary sections. We will make our arbitrary section using three standard section shapes that are placed with the Steel Detailing commands. Arbitrary sections shapes are saved in a MicroStation cell library. Click File > Change Cell Select the ist.cel file in the projects \esl folder. Click OK. Click File > Save FWP Settings so the cell file will be attached automatically the next time you open the model. Click Utilities > Seetions > De le. Awe Click Place Cross Section = ‘Type W840X176 for the section and 8 for the cardinal point. Place the cross section in a plan view. 9. Zoom in on the cross section for a better view. 10. Type MC460X86 for the section. 11, Select 8 for the cardinal point and 270 for the rotation. 12, Place the channel on top of the I-section. You may need to use the MicroStation ‘Move command and the Midpoint snap lock to align them precisely. 13. Type L152X102X7.9 for the section. 14, Select 3 for the cardinal point, 0 for the rotation, and select, the reflect option. 15, Place the angle on top of the chennel on the right side. Snap to the corner of the channel for precise placement. 16. Click Utilities > Sections > Create. 17. Make sure Section Types is set to Steel and Shape is set to Arbitrary, ‘FrameWorks Plus Metric Tutorial 75Ares and Tapered Members 19. Click Create. 20. Place a fence around the sections following the prompts. 21. Click Create again. 22, Place a data point to indicate that the T-section represents a solid area of the arbitrary section. 23. Place a data point to indicate that the channel represents a solid area. 24, Place a data point to indicate that the angle represents a solid area. FrameWorks Plus indicates that the arbitrary section was successfully created. 25. Click Cancel to exit the dialog box. q 26. Now that FrameWorks Plus has created your section, let's look at the section ; properties. Click Utilities > Sections > Review. 27, Set Library to User. 28, Select Arbitrary section. 29, Select BLT from the list area; then click Properties. 30. Click Caneel. Continue to the next activity. SE 76 FrameWorks Plus Metric Tutorial LJ __Ares and Tapered Members Create Custom Section Table Delivered with FrameWorks Plus is the Interactive Section Tables (IST) utility. You can use this utility to edit the standard section tables delivered with FrameWorks Plus. In this activity, we will create two new section tables using sections from an existing table. We also will combine those two new tables to form a single new table. Create a Table from an Existing Table ‘The first thing that we need to do is to create two new tables from an existing table. 1. From the FrameWorks Plus menu, click File > Interactive Section Tables (IST) 2. From the InterSect menu, click File > Open Existing Table. Note + For the remainder of this activity, we will be working with the InterSect menus unless otherwise indicated. 3. Select the AISC.DAT table from thelist, and then click OK. 4. Click File > Create Section Table. This dialog box is used to create new section tables. In the Create Section Table dialog box, click File > New Table Name. 6. ‘Type mylsect for the table name, and then click OK. Note that she New Table Name field in the dialog box updates with the name that you specified. 7. Verify that Create From is set to Existing Table. This indicates that you want fo create the new mylsect table using sections from the existing table listed. 8. Select the Geometric Shape checkbox. This indicates that from the existing table, you want to filter sections for the new table based on shapes. 9. Select the I Shape checkbox to add only I shapes from the existing table to the new table. 10. Click OK. 11. From the Create Section Table dialog box, click File > New Table Name. 12. Type mypipesect for the table name, and then click OK. 13, Clear the I Shape checkbox, and then select the Pipe checkbox. 14. Click OK. FrameWorks Plus Metric Tutorial 77Ares and Tapered Members Dump Existing Tables to ASCII Files With the two new tables, mylsect and mypipesect, created, we need to dump those tables to an ASCII file. After the tables are in ASCII format, you can edit properties, add and remove sections, rename sections, and any other editing that may be required. 1 The format of the ASCI file is documented in the Interactive Section Tables Reference Guide. 1. Click Start > Programs > Accessories > Command Prompt. 1 2, Type ed e:\win32app\ingr\fwplus\esl to change directories to the folder where Ef the sections tables are delivered with FrameWorks Plus. 3, Type dir to list the folder contents. Note that your two new tables, mylsect and mypipesect, are there. 4, Type ec\win32app\ingr\fwplus\bin\istdump.exe mylsect.dat mylsect.txt to create an formatted ASCII file of the mylsect table. 5, Type c:\win32app\ingr\fwplus\bin\istdump.exe mypipesect.dat mypipesect.txt to create an formatted ASCII file of the mypipesect table | 6. Type mylsect.txt to display the file in the default ASCII editor. 7. Close the file without making any changes. Type copy mylsect.txt ++ mypipesect.txt mycusttable.txt to combine the two ! ASCII files into a new ASCII file called mycusttable.txt. In doing so, you have merged the two section tables into a single table. 9. Type exit to close the Command Prompt window. Create Section Table from ASCII File | ‘Now that the tables are merged, we need to create the .dat file from the ASCII file so that we can use the merged table in ErameWorks Plus. Go back to FrameWorks Pius and the Create Section Table dialog box. In the Create Section Table dialog box, click File > New Table Name. Type mycusttable for the table name, Select ASCI File for the Create From option. } Click File > Existing Table. 1 Sclect mycusttable.txt from the list ASCII files, and then click OK. Clear the Geometric Shape option. Click OK to create the table, and then click Cancel to exit the dialog box. Click File > Open Existing Table and open your new mycusttable.dat table. 10. Click Section > Review/Edit command and review the new table. err awa eye Continue to the next activity. ] Nene el 78 FrameWorks Plus Metric TutorialAres and Tapered Members Place Tapered Members With the user sections created, we are ready to place some tapered members. You do not need a user section to create tapered members; you can use two different-sized standard sections as long as they are the same type (both channels, both angle, and so forth). Set the West Elevation view if it is not active, 2. Click Tools > Manipulate. Click Split Member. = ‘Snap to and accept the center of the W410X75 beam between grids 3 and 2. Accept to split the member. Split the other W410X75 beam between grids 2 and 1 the same way. 7. Click Modify Section. 8. Type MYT for the Start Section. 9. Select the End Section option, and then type W4J0X75 for the End Section. 10. Select the far left beam. 11. Type MYT for the End Section. Keep the same Start Section. 12. Select the two center beams. 13. Type W410X75 for the Start Section. Keep the same End Seetion 14, Select the far right beam. FrameWorks Plus Metric Tutorial 79Ares and Tapered Members Tos 9 a00 15. Click Join Member. Ss 16, Select and accept the left-center beam. 17. Select and accept the right-center beam. 18. Join the two beams at the Framing Plan @ TOS 4 level. i i i So © © 19. Take a close look at the tapered members in the 3D Dimetrie view. Continue to the next activity. 80 FrameWorks Plus Metric Tworial 1Model Manipulation Model Manipulation In this section we will be manipulating the model, including: applying planar cutbacks to a member set, defining user cutbacks to vertical braces, and applying fireproofing to the first floor columns and second floor beams. We will also learn how to apply a working point offset to vertical braces. When you are finished, you will know how to: + Modify the cutback priority for a member, + Compute planar cutbacks. + Apply a working point offset. + Use the Uncut command. + Apply user cutbacks. + Apply fireproofing to members. FrameWorks Plus Metric Tuorial 81Model Manipulation Compute Planar Cutbacks 1 In this activity we will be computing planar cutback automatically for all the model members, Cutbacks are computed based on the parameters defined and the cutback priorities of the member. When a member intersects two or more members with higher priority, FrameWorks q Plus performs cutbacks to all intersecting members and selects the cutback that produces the longest cutback length. 1, Set the 3D Dimetric view if it is not already active. 2. Click Tools > Cutbacks. Click Member Priority. 4, Set End 1 Priority and End 2 Priority to 9. Click Settings > Select Filter > Settings. 6. Tum on Type filtering. Set the Type comparator to = and the type to Horizontal } Brace. | Tun off Class filtering. Make sure the Filter On toggle is on. | 9. Click OK on the Selection Filter dialog box. mel E 10. Click Element Selection, | 0 and drag a selection box around the entire d structure in the 3D view. L1. Click Member Priority 12, Click OK on the Alert box to apply the new priority } 13. Click Utilities > Review Element, | 14. Verify that the correct priority was applied to the horizontal braces. 15. Click Cancel on the Review Element dialog box. 16. Click Settings > Select Filter > Settings. again. 17. Click Clear on the Selection Filter dialog box to clear all the filter settings, and ] then clear Filter On J 18. Click OK to dismiss the Selection Filler dialog box. i ee 82. FrameWorks Plus Metric Tutorial‘| Model Manipulation = i) 19. Click Compute Cutbacks. £1] u 20. Click Caneel on the alert box. 21. Set Sean Tolerance to 0:6:0. 22. Click Element Selection, } again. eT 23. Click Compute Cutbacks, Fy =| 24, Click OK on the alert box to compute cutbacks. and drag a selection around the entire model Examine the model in the 3D view and verify that the cutbacks have been made. Then continue to the next activity FrameWorks Plus Metric Tutorial 83Model Manipulation Apply Work Point Offsets to Vertical Braces ‘The Modify Work Point Offset command makes minor adjustments to the physical location of one member end while still maintaining the original location's connectivity for analytical considerations, A common usage of a work point offset is to apply 2 vertical offset to vertical braces. You can place work point offsets in FrameWorks Plus using one of three options: Point, Key-in, or Rule, ‘The Point option graphically defines the new work point offset. You should use this option when you can clearly define the offset point using the mouse. ‘The Key In option defines the new work point offset using a user-defined x, y, coordinate offset. Use this option when you know the exact distance you need to move the member end. ‘The Rule option defines the new work point offset based on a rule applicable to the selected member type and connection. FrameWorks Plus supports rules for three types of connections: beam-columm-vertical brace; beem-vertical chevron brace; and. beam-horizontal chevron brace. Use this option when you do not know the exact value of the offset and have no good way to graphically define the offset. When you use this option, Frame Works Plus automatically updates the work point offSet whenever any member associated with the joint is modified, such as rotation, a new cardinal point, or a new section. 1. Set the South Elevation view if it is not already active. In addition, you may want to zoom in on the X-bracing. 2. Click Modify Work Point Ofiset. FrameWorks Plus prompts you to Select New End Point By: Select Key In for the Select New End Point By option. Click on the bottom end of the vertical brace that starts at grid line A. Accept the brace when it highlights. Key in 0 for X, 0 for Y, and 45 for Z, 6. Click OK. Click on the bottom end of the other vertical brace. Accept the brace when it highlights. 8. Click OK to place the same work point offset on this brace end. 9, Change the Seleet New End Point By option to Rule. 10, Select the top end of one of the vertical braces. 1. Select 2 for the Select Point. SS 84 FrameWorks Plus Metric TutorialModel Manipulation 12. Click OK. 13, Select the top end of the other vertical brace. 14. Click OK to assign the 2 Select Point to that vertical brace. Now, using what you have leamed, set the North Elevation view and apply the same ‘work point offsets to the vertical braces in that view. Use the Rule option and Select Point 2 for the top of the members, and the Key In option for the bottom of the members. When you are finished with the North Elevation, set the West Elevation view. Use the Rule option and Select Point 3 for the top of the members with a .30-meter offset. Use the Key In option for the botiom of each member using 45 for the Z value. Continue to the next section. FrameWorks Plus Metric Tutorial 85Model Manipulation Apply Work Point Offsets to Horizontal Braces Now that you are finished applying work point offsets to the vertical braces in the South, North, and West Elevation views, we can apply work point offsets to the horizontal braces in the Framing Plan @ TOS 4 view. 1. Set the Framing Plan @ TOS 4 view and zoom in on the horizontal chevron braces. 2. Click Modify Work Point Offset. FrameWorks Plus prompts you to Select New End Point By: 3, Select Rule for the Select New End Point By option. 4, For the horizontal brace ends labeled with an A, apply a Rule work point offset of 60 centimeters. For the horizontal brace ends labeled with a B, apply a Rule work point offset of 15 centimeters. ®©® © @©@6 @- 4. Oat en arene eet 1 66 6 7 Continue to the next section. — eee ee 86 FrameWorks Plus Metric TutorialModel Manipulation Define User Cutbacks Because you have moved the vertical brace ends, the cutbacks that you applied earlier are no longer valid. In this activity, you will delete the previously defined cutbacks on the vertical braces and define user cutbacks assuming that these braces are framing into the joint by means of a gusset plate. Set the 3D Dimetric view if it is not already active, 2. Zoom in on the x-bracing on the building's south side. 3. Click Tools > Cutbacks > Uneut Member. Click the two vertical braces on buil ng’s south side. 5. Click User Cutbacks. Set Define Vector to Orthogonal Select the top of the brace that runs from the bottom right to top left FrameWorks Plus prompts for a point on the cutting plane. ‘Snap to the vertical brace's top connect point. Type dl =,-.90 10, Select the top of the brace that runs from the bottom left to top right. FrameWorks Plus Metric Tutorial 87Model Manipulation 11, Snap to vertical brace's top connect point, and then type d/=,,-.90 + After snapping, press Ese to activate the key-in field. Then press the up-arrow key to recall the previous key-in. 12, Select one of the vertical braces toward the bottom of the brace. 13. Snap to the vertical brace’s bottom connect point, and then type di=,,.90 14, Select the other vertical brace toward the bottom of the brace. bottom connect point, and then type d,.90 When you are finished, continue to the next activity, SS 88 FrameWorks Plus Metrie Tutorial 1 coModel Manipulation Define SmartCuts ‘The SmartCut command cuts and copes a single target member to one or more support members. Each target member can have up to twenty support members. You can create multi-plane cutbacks for any linear member with standard or arbitrary sections. This command does not support are ot solid members. In this activity, you are going to apply SmartCuts to the remaining vertical braces and a beam. 1, Inthe 3D Dimetrie view, zoom in to the vertical braces on the west and north side of the bui Click Tools > Cutbacks > SmartCut Clear the User Cutback Locking option if active. Select the Automatically select support members option. Enter a Scan Tolerance of 0:500:0. arene nnnemnneanen eee eee reed FrameWorks Plus Metric Tutorial 89Model Manipulation 6. Select each of four remaining vertical braces. 7. Select the Priority Override option. 8. Select the beam along Grid 2, between Grids A and B as the target member. 9. Zoom in to view the end of the beam. SS 10. Keeping the Dimetric view zoomed in and active, set the West Hlevation view See 90 FrameWorks Plus Metric TutorialModel Manipulation 11, Using the Modify Section =] command to change the section of the support beam along Grid A to be a W530X599. While doing so, watch the Dimetric and ‘West Elevation views as Frame Works Plus automatically updates the work point ofiet on the two vertical braces and the SmartCuts on the vertical braces and the beam. Continue to the next activity. FrameWorks Plus Metric Tutorial 91Model Manipulation Apply Fireproofing to Members To help protect some members in case of fire, we are going to put some fireproofing oon the first floor columns and beams. Set the 3D Dimetric view if itis not already active. 2, Click Tools > Modify > Modify Fireproofing, 3. Set Fireproofing to Contour, fully encased, 4, Set Fireproofing Length to By setback (value). 5. Type 30 for Setback Value End 1. We do not want fireproofing on the bottom 30 centimeters of the column. 6. Type ! for Setback Value End 2. We do not want fireproofing on the top meter of the column. 7. Click Settings > Select Filter > Settings. 8. Select Type and set the Comparator equal to Column. 9. Click OK. 10, Click Element Selection. =] LL. Drag a selection set around the first floor columns. 12. Click Modify Fireproofing = again. 13, Click OK on the Alert box to modify the 14 members. —— 92. FrameWorks Plus Metric TutorialModet Manipulation FrameWorks Plus applies fireproofing to the first floor columns. 14. Click Settings > Select Filter > Settings. 15. Change your Comparator equal to Beams. 16. Click Modify Fireproofing 17. Click Caneel on the Alert box. 18. Change Fireproofing to Contour, top flange exposed. 19. Change Fireproofing Length to Use cutback distances. again. 20, Click Blement Seection, 21. Drag a selection set around the beams on the second floor. 22, Click Modify Fireproofing £21 again. 23, Click OK on the Alert box to modify the 21 elements. FrameWorks Plus places fireproofing on the second floor beams. Spend 2 few minutes reviewing the fireproofing, and then continue to the next section. FrameWorks Plus Metric Tutorial 93Model Manipulation Modify Fabricator 1 In this activity, we are going to find all the member in the model that we applied a SmartCut to, and then modify the fabricator for these members to be Jones Steel instead of Huntsville Steel 1. Click Settings > Select Filter > Settings. 2. Clear all filter settings, and turn off the filter. 3. Click OK. 4. Click Utilities > Locate Element > By Attributes. 5, Select the Cutback option, 6, Select SmartCut fiom the Cutback option list. 7. Select Make selection set with results. 8. Click OK. Frame Works Plus finds 5 members with SmartCuts applied, and then creates a } selection set. 9. Click Cancel to exit the Locate Element command. 10. Click Tools > Modify > Modify Additional Attributes, IL. Click OK on the alert box to modify the 5 members. j 12, Select Fabricator Name. (Only the attributes that are selected are modified.) 13, Select Jones Steel from the fabricator name list. | 14, Click OK. 15. Now go back to the Locate Element command and search for members that have Jones Steel as the fabricator name, You will find the fabricator name under the More button. Continue to the next activity ES 94 FrameWorks Plus Metric Tutorial \Piace Slabs, Walls, and Holes Place Slabs, Walls, and Holes In this section, we will be using the FrameWorks Plus solid member commands to create a slab floor for the ground and first floors, a shear wall at one end of the building, and footings under the ground floor columns. We will also be cutting two circular holes and a block hole in the first floor slab and placing a door opening in the shear wall. When you are finished, you will know how to: + Attach a model partition to the active model + Place slabs + Place walls + Place holes FrameWorks Plus Metric Tutorial 95Place Slabs, Walls, and Holes Open the Solids Model 7 Before we can start laying the foundation for our building, we need to open the model for the solid members. You can model solids in the same model es the linear members however; using a separate model for solid members is a better method. 1. Click File> Open Model. 2. Select the solids model. 3. Click OK. FrameWorks Plus opens the model Solids. Continue to the next activity. ——S————— 96 FrameWorks Plus Metric Turorial) Place Slabs, Walls, and Holes | Attach a Model to Another Model Now that you are in the solids model, we need to attach the original model with the linear members so we can see where to put the column supports. You can attach any model in the same project to any other model in the same project. ) 1. Click File> Seetion Library. i 2. Attach the mytable user section table. Note } + Ifwe had created the user section library at the beginning of the tutorial and attached it to the seed model, each time you copied the ] seed model the library would already be attached to the model. But J since we created the user section library in the Linear model, we need to attach that user section library to the Solids model so when we attached the Linear model, the user section MYI is available. 3. Click File > Attach Model. mie | 1 4, Select linear from the mode! name list, and then click Attach, Continue to the next activity. FrameWorks Plus Metric Tutorial 97Place Slabs, Walls, and Holes Modify the Foundation Views We need to modify the display depth of the Framing Plan @ TOS 0 view before we start placing solids. 1. Click View > Set and set the Framing Plan @ TOS 0 view. 2. Click View > Modify. FrameWorks Plus prompts you to select the view to modify: 3. Click anywhere in the Framing Plan @ TOS 0 view. 4. Change the Display Depth (-) to 1:500:0. 5. Click OK. Continue to the next activity ed 98 FrameWorks Plus Metric TutorialPlace Slabs, Walls, and Holes r Place a Slab on the Ground Floor We will model the slab on the ground floor first. The dimensions of the slab can be defined interactively during placement or by key-ins. For the ground floor slab, you will define the slab’s dimensions by key-ins. For the first floor slab, you will define the slab interactively. } 1, Click Tools > Placement > 3D Solids. Click Place Stabs Select the Length field, and type 14:750:0. Select the Width field, and type 8:750:0. Select the Thickness field, and type 0:300:0. Make sure Place By is set to Block and Face ] is set to Bottom Face. 7. Change the Block Justification option to 4 Center. ay reny | 8. Place a data point at grid intersection C-2 (the center column). } 9. Verify that the slab is being placed by bottom face, and then click to accept the j placement. Continue to the next section. ‘FrameWorks Plus Metric Tutorial 99Place Slabs, Walls, and Holes Place a Slab on the Second Floor 7 ‘Now that you have placed a slab with fixed dimension on the ground floor, we are going to place another slab interactively on the second floor. 1. Set the Framing Plan @ TOS 4 view it is not already active. Click Place Slabs. Clear the Length field Clear the Width field. Select the Thickness field, and type 0:300:0. Change the Block Justification option to Corner. Make sure Place By is set to Block and Face is set to Bottom Face. aawReED 8. Place a data point at grid intersections A-1 and E-3 in the Framing Plan @ TOS 4 view. 9. Verify that the slab is being placed by the bottom face, and then click to accept the placement note j + Because the slab is on top of the beams, you will probably need to look in } the 3D Dimetric view to see the second floor slab after placing it. Continue to the next section. SE 100 FrameWorks Plus Metric TutorialPlace Slabs, Walls, and Holes Place Footings ‘With the slabs in place, you are ready to start on the footings under the ground floor columns. You will need the Framing Plan @ TOS 0 view, so make sure itis active. Click Place Slabs. Select the Length, Width, and Thickness options. Type 0:500-0 for the length, 0:500:0 for the width, and 0:750:0 for the thickness. Set Block Justification to Center. Set Place By to Block and Face to Top Face. 6. Place a footing at each column by placing a data point at each grid intersection except A-2 in the Framing Plan @ TOS 0 view. oo © @ @ ‘FrameWorks Plus Metric Tutorial 101Place Slabs, Walls, and Holes 7. Now type 1:250:0 for the length, 1:250:0 for the width, and 0:300:0 for the thickness, 8, Set Place By to Block and Face to Top Face. 9, Set Block Justification to Center. 10. Change Delta TOS to -0:750:0, because these footings need to be below the footings you just placed. 11. Place a footing at each column again. Continue to the next activity El 102. Frame Works Plus Metric TutorialPlace Slabs, Walls, and Holes Place a Shear Wall Now that the slabs and footings are placed, we are going to place a shear wall at one end of the building. When placing walls, you must define the wall’s height and thickness by key-ins, You can define the walls length either interactively or by key- in, Walls are placed by defining the wall's bottom location in a plan view. 1. Zoom in on the Fast end of the building in the Framing Pian @ TOS 0 view (grid lines D and B). 2. You will need the MicroStation key-in field. You can find it on the MicroStation Utilities menu. 3. Click Place Wall, 4. Clear the Length option so you can define the wall's length interactively 5. Type 0:175:0 for the wall thickness, ‘Type 8:700:0 for the wall height (height of the building minus 30 centimeters for the first floor slab that the shear wall is placed on). 7. Set Place By to Orthogonal Shape and Face to Right. ‘Type 0:300-0 for the Delta TOS (to place the wall on top of the first floor slab). ‘Type xy=I1,-0.375,0 for the first vertex in the MicroStation key-in field. CTE CEC) HELE) FrameWorks Plus Metric Tutorial 103Place Slabs, Walls, and Holes 11. Type xy=14.375,8.375,0 for the third vertex. 12. Right-click to place the wall. © © ® © Continue to the next section. EE 104 FrameWorks Plus Metric TutorialPlace Slabs, Walls, and Holes Place a Doorway ‘Now that the slabs, footings, and shear wall are in place, we can place holes in them to represent doors, stairway openings, and other needed holes. As with slabs and walls, you can define the size of the hole either interactively or by key-in. In this activity, you are going to be placing a 4'x7 doorway in the shear wall 1. Set the South Elevation view if it is not already active. 8) Click Place Holes. 25" 2 3. Select Length, and type 1:250:0 4 5. Select Width, and type 2:500:0 . Set Place By to Block and Block Justification to Corner. FrameWorks Plus prompts you to Select Member. 6. Select and accept the shear wall in the South Elevation view. FrameWorks Plus prompts you for the position of the vertex. 7. Type xy=13:500:0, -0:375.0, 0:300:0 FrameWorks Plus places the doorway in the shear wall. Continue to the next activity. FraneWorks Plus Metric Tutorial 105Place Slabs, Walls, and Holes Place Holes in Slabs Holes in slabs are placed using the same method as the doorway. In this activity, you ‘are going to place one block hole (for a stairway) in the second floor slab. In addition, we are going to place two cylinders, using generic MicroStation commands, to represent vertical tanks. Then we are going to use the FrameWorks Plus Cutout command to create two holes around the tanks in the second floor slab. Place the Tanks From the MicroStation Tools menu, click Tools > 3D Main > 3D Primitives. Click Place Cy! Set Type to Solid. Set Axis to Drawing Z. Select Orthogonal. Select Radius, and then type 1.25. Select Height, and then type 8.7. Height of the building minus 30 cm for the ground floor slab. Beppe 8. Type xy=/.5,2,.3 for the center point, We know the bays are 3x4 meters and that the ground floor slab is 30 em thick, the location of the tank should be 1.5 meters east, 2 meters north, and 30 cm elevation. 9. Place a data point to define the direction ofthe tank to be up through the building, 10. Type xy=J.5,6,.3 for the center point. 11. Place a data point to define the direction of the tank to be up through the building. 12, Close the 3D Primitives tool box. el 106 FrameWorks Plus Metric Tutorial 4Place Slabs, Walls, and Holes Place Cutouts L. Set the Framing Plan @ TOS 4 and Dimetric views if they are not already active. 2. Click Solid Cutouts. 3. ‘Type 0:5020 for the clearance. This specifies that you want a 5 cm gap between ‘the edge of the hole and the side of the tank. Set Cutout Type to Group. 5. In Cutout Options, select Mstn Solids, Surfaces, and Cones 6. Select the second floor slab in any view. 6 © © © 6 FrameWorks Plus Metric Tutorial 107Place Slabs, Walls, and Holes Place Block Holes Click Place Hole. Set Place By to Block and Block Justification to Corner. Select Length, and type 1:500-0 Select Width, and type 4:0:0 Select the second floor slab in the Framing Plan @ TOS 4 view. Type xy=/2.5,0,4 for the vertex location. oo 8 © Continue to the next section, TutorialGenerating Reports Generating Reports ‘Now that we have the model built, we are ready to generate material take-off reports. In this section, you will learn how to: Define a report format Generate a Linear Member Material Reports, Generate a Solid Member Material Reports Generate Center of Gravity Reports FrameWorks Plus Metric Tutorial 109Generating Reports Define a Report Format , Regardless of the report that you are creating, all report formats are defined using the same method. In this activity, you will load a delivered report format and then review } it using the main report formatting dialog boxes. j Click File > Open Model. Select Linear mod from the list, and then click OK. } Click File > Attach Model. Aitach the solids model. } 5. Click Utilities > Reports > Material > Linear. Aen tees The Linear Material Reports dialog box displays. 6. Click File > Load on the Linear Material Report dialog box. 7. Choose brief from the list. The format for brief is only 80 columns wide and has fewer items. 8. There are three dialog boxes that control the format for each report part: header, data, and totals. Click Formats > Header. 9. Change Project Name to read My Project. 10. Click OK. 11. Click Formats > Data. 12. Clear the Name, Unit Length, and Unit Weight options. 13. Change the Weight Starting Column to 40, 14, Click OK. 15. Click Formats > Totals 16, Change the Total Length Starting Column to 25 and the Total Weight Starting Column to 50. 17. Click OK. 18, Click File > Save As 19. Type My Brief Report for the preference name. 20, Click OK. Continue to the next activity. — SE 110 FrameWorks Plus Metric TutorialGenerating Reports Create the Linear Member Material Report ‘Now that you have a basic understanding of setting report formats, we can create some reports, 1. Click OK on the Linear Material Report dialog box to create a report on your entire project. FrameWorks Plus extracts, formats, and condenses the data, and then writes it to an ASCII file. An alert box displays asking if you want to review the report. 2. Click OK on the alert box to display the report 3. Close the report when you are finished reviewing it note + Reports are written to the lzpt subdirectory in the current project using the active model name and a xt extension by default. These files are ASCIL files that can be edited and printed using any editor that accepts ASCII files as input, like Notepad or Microsoft Excel”. Continue to the next activity. FrameWorks Plus Metric Tutorial 111Generating Reports Create Solid Member Reports Solid reports are created using a similar method that was used to create linear member reports, 5. Click Utilities > Reports > Material > 3D Solid. Verify that Include Attached Models is selected. ‘Type solidrpe.tct for the Report File. Cliok OK. Click OK on the alert box to display the report. Using what you have learn, create a Center of Gravity report. The command is Utilities > Reports > COG. Continue to the next section. Sea 112 Frame Works Plus Metric TutorialDrawing Extractions Drawing Extractions FrameWorks Plus creates frozen views (drawing views) that can be used by MicroStation's Drawing Composition command or PD_Draw for construction drawing composition. In this section, we will create a new elevation view using the Drawing Scale feature, we will then freeze the views and create a simple drawing After the drawing is created, we will then change the model and automatically update the drawing. FrameWorks Plus Metric Tutorial 113Drawing Extractions Create a View with a Drawing Scale You can create Frame Works Plus model views using a Drawing Scale. If you choose to define a drawing scale for the view, the text and some representation sizes you enter in the View Symbology dialog boxes are the actual size you want them to be in the drawing when plotted, For example, you activate this option and select 1/4" 1’ as the scale. In the View Symbology dialog boxes you enter 0.25 (1/4 of an inch) as the text size you want in the drawing. When you create the view, Frame Works Plus caloulates that the text needs to be placed in the Model View using a text size of 1 foot. Later, you modify the view’s drawing scale to 1/2" : 1', because you still want your text to be 1/4" high in the drawing, Frame Works Plus recalculates and resets the text size in the Model View to be 6 inches. In this activity, we will create a new elevation view using a drawing scale. Click View > Create. Set View Type to Elevation, Set View Orientation to By Grid Line. Select and accept grid line C in one of the plan views, FrameWorks Plus prompts Specify point for view direction. Appe Place a data point between grid lines C and D in the plan view. 6. Select the Drawing Scale option, and then select 1-100 for the scale. a ae = Oi Gialtne | —— Senay ee 114 FrameWorks Plus Metric Tutorial} J Drawing Extractions 7. Click Symbology > Linear > Beams in the Create View dialog box. 8. Forthe Single Line representation, type 5.0 for the Endl and End2 Setbacks, This specifies that you want the setbacks 5 millimeters on the drawing, 9. For the Double Line representation, type 10 for the DbtLine Length. This specifies that you want the double-line widget length to be one centimeter on the drawing. 10. Switch to the Annotation settings 11. For the Name, clear the Display in View option to turn off the display of the name. 12. For the Fireproofing, clear the Display in View option to turn off the display. 13. For the Section Size, select the Use Uniform Text Size option. By using this option, you set all the linear member label sizes in this view once, ensuring that they are the same size. 14, Type 3.0 for the Uniform Height and Width fields. 15. Type J for the Font. 16. Type 50 for the Offset. 17, Verify that the As % of Height option is selected. By setting Offset to 50 and selecting this option, the Section Size label is offset from the member half the height of the label text. a tia” ee it bute 18. Click Apply to save the changes to the beam symbology settings. 19. Click Type > Columns. 20. For the Single Line representation, type 5.0 for the End! and End? Setbacks, 21, For the Double Line representation, type 10 for the DblLine Length. 22, Switch to the Annotation settings. ‘rameWorks Plus Metric Tutorial 115Drawing Extractions 23, For the Section Size, type J for the Font 24, Type 50 for the Offset. Verify the As % of Height option is selected. 1 25. For the Name, clear the Display in View option to turn off the display of the name. 26. For the Fireproofing, clear the Display in View option to tur off the display. 27. Click Apply to save the changes to the column symbology settings. 28, Click Type > V-Braces. 29. For the Single Line representation, type 5.0 for the Endl and End2 Setbacks. : 30. For the Double Line representation, type 10 for the DblLine Length. 31. Switch to the Annotation settings. 32. For the Section Size, type J for the font. 33, Type 50 for the Text Position. Verify the Position as % Len option is selected. This moves the label to the center of the member. 34. Type 50 for the Ofifset. Verify the As % of Height option is selected. 1 35, Select the Abbreviate Section option. 36. Type 2 for the Number of Characters. 37. For the Name, clear the Display in View option to turn off the display of the name. 38. Click OK to save your changes. | 39. Click File > Save As on the Create View dialog box. : 40, Type Drawing Scale for the preference name, and then click OK. 41. Click OK to create the view. J} 42, Select a view to display the new elevation view in. aS Pe ane | | = = / 2 2 i WaeorMT 116 FrameWorks Plus Metric Tutorial }] Drawing Extractions 43, Click View > Override Annotation. 44, Select the are member. 45, Place the annotation above the arc member. a 46, Click Place Elevation Grid £34] 47. Select the Honor view scale for grid graphics option at the bottom of the dialog box. This specifies that you want the grid label graphics to be scaled to the active drawing scale of the view the grid is placed in. Note + [after you place the grid you change the scale of a view, you have to delete and replace the grid. FrameWorks Plus does not rescale grid labels when the view's drawing scale changes. 48, Set Axis to Horizontal 49. Type 70:0 for Extension (left). 50. Click Symbology > Labels. 51. Type 3.0 for the Text Height and Text Width fields. We want the grid's horizontal line labels to be the same size on the drawing as the member labels. 52. Set Font to 1 53. Click OK on the Grid Label Symbology dialog box. 54, Set Axis to Vertical 55. Type 4:0:0 for the Bubble Radius. 56. Click Symbology > Labels again. 57. Type 3.0 for the Text Height and Text Width fields. These are the labels for the vertical grid lines. 58. Click OK on the Grid Label Symbology dialog box. 59. Click OK on the Place Elevation Grid dialog box. FrameWorks Plus prompts Select Grid Line. 60, Select grid line C in any plan view. FrameWorks Plus prompts Select Elevation View for grid. 61. Place a data point in the Elevation @ Grid C view. With all the views that we need created, we are ready to freeze them. Continue to the next section, FrameWorks Plus Metric Tutorial 117Drawing Extractions Create the Frozen Views In this section we will take the FrameWorks Plus model views and tum them into “permanent graphics that can be used to compose a drawing, Until now the displays of text, cross-sections icons, surfaces, and so forth, are based on the displays out of memory from the FrameWorks Plus database. If you were to try, you would find that atext string could not be selected and moved or edited using a MicroStation command. The only elements really placed by Frame Works Plus in the design file are the dashed lines (attribute carrying elements), the grid lines, and the grid labels. This approach allows a smaller design file, and therefore improves performance. FrameWorks Plus consistently "drafts" the elements according to the desired office standard without the operator placing and manipulating additional elements in a generic design file. Changes to the model are immediately reflected in all associated FrameWorks Plus views. However, to reflect the changes in a Frozen View you must use the Update Frozen command. ‘The Frozen View can be written to the model's design file or to a separate design file. The recommended workflow is to freeze each view to its own separate design file. 1. Using the View> Set command, set the 3D Dimetrie, Framing Plan @ TOS 4, and Elevation @ Grid C views. 2. Click Bile > Save FWP Settings to save your settings. 3. Click View > Freeze. The Freeze View dialog box displays FrameWorks Plus prompts you to Select View to Freeze. Place a data point in the Elevation @ Grid C view, We are going to save the frozen views to a separate design file. To do this we need to create a design file to save them to, so click Select, The Choose Freeze File dialog box displays. 6. Type GridC.dgn in the Files field, and then click OK, An alert box displays asking you if you want to create the file. 7. Click OK to create the new design fil. 8. Select Include Attached FWP Models. 9. Click Apply on the Freeze View dialog box. FrameWorks Plus prompts you to Select View to Freeze. 10. Place a data point in the Framing Plan @ TOS 4 view. 11. Click Select and create a new frozen file called Plan View.dgn. a 118. FrameWorks Plus Metric TutorialDrawing Extractions 12, Select Include Attached FWP Models. 13. Click Apply to save the frozen view 14, Select the 3D Dimetrie view. 15. Click Select and create a file called Dimetric.dgn. 16. Clear the Generate Propagated Model option. 17, Select Include Attached FWP Models. 18. Click OK to freeze the 3D view. 19. Click File > Save FWP Settings so the same views are set when we come back to the model. 20, Click View > Display Frozen, 21. Select the Elevation @ Grid C view from the list. 22. Click Display. 23, Place a data point in a view. FrameWorks Plus displays the frozen view in the selected view. 24. Look at the other frozen views, and then click Cancel to exit the Display Frozen command, Now that we have several views frozen, we can begin the drawing composition. FrameWorks Plus Metric Tutorial 119Drawing Extractions Compose Drawings ‘The next step in creating a construction drawing is to take the drawing views you froze and arrange them inside a drawing border to compose the drawing. Three basic operations are involved in drawing composition: + Attaching a border file to your drawing file. The drawing border can be made specific to your company or client. The border is attached as a reference file so thet it can be shared with all designers on the project. + Placing the frozen drawing views inside the drawing border. + Finishing the drawing using any of the MicroStation drafting tools, such as dimensioning, notes, symbols, and so forth, ‘You can compose drawings using the MicroStation Drawing Composition commend or by using the MicroStation Reference files command. We will cover both methods. Create a Drawing File Regardless of drawing composition method, the first thing that we need to do is create anew design file in which to compose our drawing. 1. Click File > FrameWorks Plus Manager. The FrameWorks Manager dialog box displays. Change directories to myproject\drw. Click Utilities > Create > Drawing on the FrameWorks Manager dialog box. ‘Type drwmod for the drawing name. Make sure the Units field is set to Meters. Click OK to create the drawing file. Change the List Files of Type option to Design Files. Select drwmod.dgn from the list, and then click Open. The design file drwmod.dgn is opened. Compose the Drawing using Reference Files ‘The easiest way to compose drawings to is use the MicroStation File > Reference command. We need to verify a few reference file options before we start. 1. Click Workspace > Preferences from the MicroStation menu. 2. On the Preferences dialog box, select Reference File from the Category list. 3, Select the Locate Un When Attached option, the Snap On When Attached option, and the Store Full Path When Attached option. Then click OK. ES 120 FrameWorks Plus Metric TutorialDrawing Extractions Note + Ifyou define these settings in your drawing seed file, you will not have to set them each time you create a new drawing. 4, Click File > Reference. The Reference Files dialog box appears 5. Click Tools > Attach on the dialog box. The Attach Reference File dialog box appears. 6. Browse to the c:\win32app\ingr\FWPLUSISEED directory. & Note + Ifyou installed FrameWorks Plus to another directory, use that directory path instead of c:\win32app\ingr. 7. Select the All Files (*.") option. 8, Select the METRIC.BDR file. 9. Click OK. The Attach Reference File dialog box appears. 10, Select the A3 border saved view from the list. 11. Click OK. 12. Place a data point in the MicroStation Top View view. 13, Maximize the Top View window, and then click Fit Note + Ifthe MicroStation orientation cube is in the middle of your border, use the MicroStation Delete Element command to delete the orientation cube. 14. Click Tools > Attach 15. Browse to the c:\users\myproject\firz directory. Note + Ifyou stored your project in a location other than c:lusers, use that directory path instead 16, Select the GridC.dgn file. 17. Click OK. 18. Select the saved view from the list 19. Set the Scale to 1:100. 20. Click OK. 21. Place the saved view on the lett side ot the drawing, FrameWorks Plus Metric Tutorial 124Drawing Extractions 22. Now place the 3D and plan views in the drawing on the right side. Use a scale of 1:150 9 Ifyou need to move your first view or just want to rearrange your dra the Tools > Move command on the Reference Files dialog box. Compose the Drawing using Drawing Composition Ifyou have already created a drawing using the Reference file method, you can skip } this activity. 1. Click Workspace > Preferences from the MicroStation menu. On the Preferences dialog box, select Reference File from the Category list. Select the Locate On When Attached option and the Snap On When Attached option. Then click OK. } Click File » Drawing Composition from MicroStation’s menu, Set Sheet Location to Sheet File. Click File > Open > Sheet in the Drawing Composition dialog box. Change List Files of Type to All Files | Navigate through the directory structure to the project's ldrw directory. Select the drwmod.dgn file, and then click OK. } 10. Click File > Open > Model in the Drawing Composition dialog box. J 1. Navigate through the directory structure to the project's fx directory. eR ae 122. FrameWorks Plus Metric Tutorial: Drawing Extractions 12, Select the GridC.dg file, and then click OK. j 13. Click Tools > Attach Border > Saved View. 14, Navigate through the directory structure to the ..\fypius\seed Note + The default delivery directory for FrameWorks Plus is c:iwin3 2app\ingr\fivplus. j 15. Select the metric.bdr file, and then click OK. 16. Select AOsize, and then click OK. 17. Select Save Full Path in the Drawing Composition dialog box. 18. Place the border in any MicroStation Top View. 19, Fit the view so you can see the entire border. 20. Set the Scale (Sheet:Model) to 0.025 : 1 4 21. Click Tools > Attach Saved View. d 22, Select and place the saved view into the border. Note + Depending on the size of the views were when you froze them, you may have to scale the frozen views to get them to fit inside the border. The F Scale command is on the Tools menu. Continue to the next activity. FrameWorks Plus Metric Tutorial 123Drawing Extractions Perform an Associative Move 7 To demonstrate how a drawing can be updated if the model is changed, we will perform a simple associative move. Before doing the associative move however, we are going to create a backup of the model, Before performing any major operation on | your model, you should always backup your model at a minimum. Ifthe operation inas project wide implications, such as Named Groups, you should backup the entire 1 project. FrameWorks Plus does not have an Undo command, 1. Exit FrameWorks Plus and MicroStation. Click Start > Programs > Accessories > Windows Explorer. ‘Navigate to cclusers. Create a new folder called myproject backup. Holding down the CTRL key, drag the myproject folder into the myproject backup folder. This copies all ofthe files in your project to myproject backup. Open the linear model in FrameWorks Plus. Set a MicroStation (not a FrameWorks Plus) Front view. Fit the view, veer Ifitis not active, set the FrameWorks Plus 3D Dimetric view in another view. se ene 0. Drag a selection box (in the Front View) around the center frame columns. | 11. Click Move Member. 231 12. Set Associativity to Global, } 13, Snap to and accept grid line C for the move origin point. 14, Snap to the same point again, but this time do not accept the point, Instead, type dl=1,0,0. J 15. Check the moved member's position in the 3-D view. If all the members have moved, accept the move, [fall the members have not moved, reject the move and | try again. ul Continue to the next activity. ] ee 124 FrameWorks Plus Metric TutorialDrawing Extractions Update a Drawing Because we changed the model in the previous activity, our drawing is no longer up- to-date. FrameWorks Plus provides two commands (Update Frozen and Regenerate) for updating frozen (drawing) views. 1. Click View > Drop and drop all Frame Works Plus views. j 2. Click View > Update Frozen. FrameWorks Plus displays those frozen views that are out-of-date with their model views in red. Hold the SHIFT key, and the select each view listed in red. Click Update. ‘Click Cancel, Retumn to the drawing file, and verify that the views were updated. | Now go back to the model and move the members back to their original location. : This time use the View > Regenerate command to update the frozen views. Make | sure you select the Regenerate Attached Models option. i ‘FrameWorks Plus Metric Tuorial 123Drawing Extractions Create a File for SmartPlant Review 7 Ifyou are using FrameWorks Plus in conjunction with PDS software, you may want to create a frozen view that can be used with Intergraph's SmartPlant Review } application. This file can also be used with the PDS integration command Attach Reference Model, Note + The first view you create in a model should always be a 3D Isometric, view. The PDS and FrameWorks Plus batch propagation routines use the } first 3D viow defined in a model to generate the propagated view. 1. Click View > Create to create a new 3D view. 2. Set View Type to 3D. ‘Type 3D View for PD_Review for the view description. 4. Click Symbology > Linear > Beams on the Create View dialog box. Verify that the Graphics Representation for each linear member type (beam, column, vertical brace, and horizontal brace) is Surface. Tum off any other representation and annotations types. Create the view, and place it in one of the MicroStation views. Click File > Save FWP Settings to save the settings. Click View > Freeze. Select the view you just created. 10. Click Select. } 11. Type 3dview for the file name. 12, Click OK to create the file } 13. Verify the Generate Propagated Model option is selected 14. Click OK. i 15. Exit FrameWorks Plus, but keep MicroStation running. ! 16. Using the MicroStation File > Open command, open the 3dview.prp file in the : project’ \frz directory. You may need to turn on MicroStation levels 50 - 63 to see the model. 17. Use the MicroStation analyze command, and select one of the members. Notice 7 that the member graphics are represented as a solid MicroStation element. 18. Click Utilities > Render > Constant and select a view. 19. When you are done rendering the model, open the Linear model in FrameWorks | Plus again. 7 Continue to the next activity. a 126 FrameWorks Plus Metrie Tutorial }Analytical Commands Analytical Commands ‘Now that the building is modeled, we are ready to place analytical information — loads, releases, and supports -- in the model. In this section we will: Place dead and live distributed loads on the beams. Place concentrated wind loads on one side of the building. Define member end releases. Define member supports for the first floor colurnns. Create an analysis input file FrameWorks Plus Metric Tutorial 127Analytical Commands Place the Live and Dead Loads Because the load cases were defined in the seed model that we used to create the linear model, we can start placing the actual loads. 1. Setthe Framing Plan @ TOS 4, the Framing Plan @ TOS 9, and the Isometric Analytic views. 2. Click Place Load. The Physical Member Loads dialog box displays. 3. Define the following load in the dialog box: Load Case: DEAD Load Type: Distributed Load Frame: Global Direction: Z Magnitude: -2.89 a RE : DEAD ia} Type (Dated aS | (reas Sl Diecten La Ls ei | ; [esx [oom | Ss ise a f = = ie < ee | | eee =a 4. Click Apply. FrameWorks Plus prompts you to Select Member to place load on. 5. Click each beam in the Framing Plan @ TOS 4 view. You can watch the Isometric Analytic view to see the loads being placed. 6. Now define the following load: Load Case: DEAD Toad Type Distributed Load Frame: Global 128 FrameWorks Plus Metric Tutorial Cs Ee ere ee SH GeetAnalytical Commands Direction: Z Magnitude: -0.45 7. Click Apply, and place this load on all beams that run along grid lines 1 and 3 in the Framing Plan @ TOS 9 view. 8. Change the Magnitude to -0.89, and apply this to all the beams on grid lines B, C, and D and the horizontal braces in the Framing Plan @ TOS 9. 9. Change the Load Case Name to Live and the Magnitude to -0.98 and apply the load to the same interior beams on grid lines B, C, and D and horizontal braces. 10. Change the Magnitude to -0.49, and apply the live load to the exterior horizontal hheams along grid lines 1 and 3 in the Framing Plan @ TOS 9 view. Continue to the next activity. FrameWorks Plus Metric Tutorial 129Analytical Commands Place Wind Loads With the dead and live loads placed, we can move on to placing the wind loads. In this activity, you will learn how to place loads using the key-in method. In the next 1 activity, you will place a load using the by-point method. 1. Set the South Elevation view ifit is not already active. 2. Click Place Load. 3. Toggle on the Display Load Labels option. } 4, We are going to be placing concentrated wind loads in the ¥ direction with the : following magnitudes along grid line 1. Tos so00_ 3.340 a 10.010 8.344 3.340 | PET ET Tos 4.000 Tos 0 ~ i tT t Loads are placed at the joints, but must be assigned to the start or end points of the members. For example, the 3.340 load at the A-9im joint is defined as: } Load Case: WIND 4 Load Type: Concentrated Load Frame: Global ] Direction: ¥ Magnitude: 3.340 Location: RELative (Value) 0.0 } eee 130 FrameWorks Plus Metric Tutorial ]Analytical Commands ‘This location and value mean to place the load a 0 relative distance from end 1, which is the left end of the member. 5. Click Apply, and select the beam between grid lines A and B at the 9-meter elevation in the South Elevation view. 6. Change the Location value to 1.0. This means that the load is placed 100% along the length of the member, or at end two. Apply this load to the top beam spanning between grid D and E. 7. In the Isometric Analytic view, look at each of the beams and verify that the load graphics are placed in the proper locations. You may have to zoom in on the ‘comer of the building to see the load graphic (purple arrow pointing in the Y irection). 8. Place the rest of the wind loads on the appropriate members. Remember, a relative location of 0 places the load at the beginning of the beam, while a relative location of 1 places the load at the end of the member. Continue to the next activity. FrameWorks Plus Metric Tutorial 131Analytical Commands Place Load by Point } Place loads using the by-point method when you can see the location where you want, the load in the model, but you do not know the exact location along the member. 1. Set the West Elevation view. Click Place Load. For the Load Case, select Live. For the Load Type, select Concentrated. For the Direction, select Z. For the Magnitude, type -3. Set Place Load By to Point. FrameWorks Plus prompts Select Member to place load on. A awAYD 8. Select the beam that the two vertical chevron braces frame into. : FrameWorks Plus places the load graphic on the member, and prompts Select 7 load location. 9. Move your mouse left and right. Notice how the load graphic dynamically moves with the mouse. 10. Choose a location for the load along the member, and then click the left mouse button, Frame Works Plus prompts Click Apply To Place Load, 11. Click Apply. 12. Place a few more loads using the by-point method. Continue to the next activity. iS 132. Frame Works Plus Metric Tutorial }Analytical Commands Set Member Releases Let's define some member releases. 1. Using the Settings > Select Filter > Settings command, define a selection set where Type is not equal (!=) to Column. 2. Use a selection set in the 3D Dimetrie view to identify all the members in the model. Click Modify End Releases. 4, Toggle on the RY and RZ, boxes for both the start and end member ends. Then click OK. This pins all the beam members for weak and strong axis bending, 5, Drag a small element selection fence to clear the elements. Click Modify End Releases. 7. Now select the girders along grid line C in the Framing Plan @ TOS 4 view with a selection set. Fix all the degrees of freedom by toggling off (blank) all 12 fields. Click OK, 8. Click Label End Releases. 8 Identify some of the pinned and fixed members in a plan or elevation view. Here is the legend for the release label. SO). Loe |, Continue to the next activity. FrameWorks Plus Metric Tutorial 133Analytical Commands Modify Supports With the releases defined, we can move on to supports. Because our first floor ‘columns are standing on solid footings and surrounded by a slab, we really should model supports atthe start of the colurnns, 1. Using the Settings > Select Filter > Settings command, remove (clear) any selection filter that you have defined. Click Modify Supports. Z| Select any one of the first-floor columns. Fix the degrees of freedom in the X, Y, Z, and RZ directions at the start member end. 5. Click OK. 6. Zoom in on the bottom of the column. 7. Click Label Supports. 2 8. Select the same column, ty A wv fe 2 — i Legend for the Support Label 9. Define the same supports for the rest of the first floor columns, Continue to the next activity. aS 134. Frame Works Plus Metric TutorialAnalytical Commands Create Mapping File Many times, FrameWorks Plus and 3rd party applications use different names for the exact same section. A mapping file solves the naming conflicts by mapping section names in FrameWorks Plus to section names in the other applications. The mapping file is named after the active 3rd Party Software and the active section table and is created in the project\int directory with a .fmf extension, For example, aise GTSTRUDL finfis the map file for the AISC table to GTSTRUDL section names. You need to create a mapping file for each section table/application combination you plan to use. & Warning + ‘The mapping file isa template. FrameWorks Plus does write known-to-be- different section names to the mapping file. However, you are responsible for verifying, editing, updating, and maintaining the 3rd party application section names in the file. 1. Click Settings > 3rd Party Software. [f you are using GISTRUDL, meke sure GTSTRUDL is selected. If you are using a STAAD application, make sure STAAD is selected. 2. Click Utilities > Create Mapping File. 3. Click OK to create the mapping file. FrameWorks Plus creates the mapping file inthe int directory. 4. When Frame Works Plus is finished creating the mapping file, use Notepad to open the finf file located in the c:\users\myprojectiint\ directory. ue fo the next activity ‘FrameWorks Plus Metric Tutorial 135Analytical Commands Create Analysis Input Deck Now that the model has been created and all the analytical information has been defined, you are ready to create your analysis input deck. For GTSTRUDL users: 1. Click File > Analysis > Write GTSTRUDL input. 2. Select Use Mapping File. 3. Click Select and select the mapping file you created in the previous activity. 4. Select Create Check Plot. Click OK. Click OK to review the input deck. . Fit the Isometric View. Select the MicroStation View Levels command. Turn off all the levels except 20-23. In this case you have placed the load graphics on the same default levels as the analytical labeled elements, In practice, you can plan your own level scheme in FrameWorks Plus. For STAAD users: Click File > Analysis > Write STAAD input. Select Use Mapping File. Click Select and select the mapping file you created in the previous activity, Select Create Check Plot. Click OK. Click OK to review the input deck. a anawne Fit the Isometric View. Select the MicroStation View Levels command, Turn off all the levels except 20-23. In this case you have placed the load graphics on the same default levels as the analytical labeled elements. In practice, you can plan ‘your own level scheme in Frame Works Plus. ES 136 FrameWorks Plus Metric Tutorial tAnalytical Commands Place Stairs Frame Works Plus delivers several unsupported FPL programs that you can use. One of these FPL programs place stairs using parameters that you define. In this last 'y, we will place a staircase from the ground floor to the second floor. 1. Seta 3D view. 2. Click File > FPL Applications. 3. Select Stair.ma from the list, and then click OK. 4 . Type 1.0 for the stair width. Remember that the hole that we made for stairs is 1.5 meters wide. “Type J.0 for the rail height. Select Both for the hand railing option. Click Place. Type xy=13.75,0.75,0.30 for the base point of the stairs. We know that Grid line E is 14 meters from the origin in the X direction. The stairway hole, which is 1.5 meters wide, aligns with Grid line E, so splitting the difference we know that the base point needs to be 13.75. Similarly, Grid | is at 0 in the ¥ direction. We allow .75-centimeter clearance in the Y direction. The ground floor slab is 30 centimeters thick, so the origin needs to be 30 centimeters in the Z direction. 9. Type ay=13.75,4,4.3 for the top point of the stairs. The 13.75 is the same as the base point. The hole stops at Grid 2, which is at 4 meters in the Y direction. The second floor slab is 30 centimeters thick, so 4 TOS plus 30 centimeters for the slab gives us 4.30 in the Z direction. 10. Set Placement Point to Right. 11. Click Place again. FrameWorks Plus Metric Tutorial 137Analytical Commands Now What? We have covered many of the main FrameWorks Plus features in this tutorial, but not all of them. If while you are using FrameWorks Plus, you have questions about a feature or an option on a dialog box, refer to the on-line help file (Help > Contents). All FrameWorks Plus commands, dialog box options, and command line interfaces are documented in the Command Information book in help. FrameWorks Plus documentation is also available in Adobe Acrobat PDF format. You will need the Adobe Acrobat Reader, which is available from the Adobe web site (www.adobe.com). Intergraph gives you permission to print the delivered PDF files | for your own personal use, However, you cannot print the PDF files for resale, redistribution, or any other activity from which you would profit. If you cannot find an answer to your question in help or the documentation, refer to the Customer Support topic in the help file for the different ways you can contact support ‘Thank you for using FrameWorks Plus | aS 138. FrameWorks Plus Metric Tutorial easIndex 3D view, 15 analysis output, 136 analytical commands, 127 arbitrary sections creating, 75 ares, 65 copying, 71 place, 68 associative moves, 124 attaching a model, 97 attributes.dat, 13 beams adding to named groups, 63, change section size, 49 copy, 47 fireproofing, 92 place single, 41 settings, 28 braces adding to named groups, 63 horizontal, $2 setings, 28 vertical, 58 building a model, 35 change default settings, 66 chock plot, 136 columns adding to named groups, 63 change section size, 49 fireproofing, 92 place multiple, 39 placing single, 37 settings, 28 combinations leads, 33 compose drawings, 120 concrete slab, 99, 100, contig. det, 12 copying ‘arc members, 71 beams, 47, members, 43 seed model, 34 frozen views, 118 creating arbitrary sections, 75 ‘custom section tables, 77 elevation views, 21 arids, 19 lead cases. 31 named groups, 61 projects, 10 Index seed models, La user sections, 73 curved members, 68 cutbacks rmulti-plane, 89 planar, 82 user, 87 Aefine load cases, 31 doonvays placing, 105 érawines ‘compose, 120 extractions, 113 updating, 125 editing, 12, 13 atributes.dat, 13 config.dat, 12 elevation arids, 24 views, 21 end releases label, 133 filtering a selection, 55 fireproofing, 92 footings, 101 format repors, 110 foundation, 95 view, 98 frozen views, 118 updating, 125 geting stated, 7 grids create, 19 elevation grids, 24 holes doors, 105 placing, 105, 106, horizontal braces, $2 introduction, 7 Toads by point, 132 cases, 31 combinations, 33 placing, 128 symbology, 31 ‘wind, 130 ‘change section size, 49 ‘cony'ing, 43 fireproofing, 92 releases, 133 FrameWorks Plus Metric Tutorial 139Index supports, 134 tapered, 78 attaching, 97 ‘opening, 96 views, 15 modifying attributes, 60, 94 view styles, 26 moving associative, 124 rmuiti-plane cutbacks, 89 named groups, 61 ‘adding members to, 63 place arcs, 68 placing elevation grid, 24 first floor columns, 37 footings, 101 holes, 105, 106 ‘horizontal braces, $2 Toads, 128 multiple colurans, 39 single beams, 41 slabs, 99, 100 stairs, 137 tapered members, 79 vertical braces, 58 walls, 103, plan view, 17 planar cutbacks, 82 preface, 6 projects creating, 10 releases label, 133 repar's, 108 Format, 110 solids, 112 second floor columns, $0 section sizes change, 49 seetions 140. FrameWorks Plus Metric Tutorial create arbitrary, 75 create custom section tables, 77 create user, 73 seed models copying, 34 creating, I selection filter, 55 selection sets, 33 settings beams, 28 braces, 28 columns, 28 slabs placing, 99, 100 SmariCut, 89| solids, 95 reports, 112 stairs placing, 137 supports, 134 tables creating custom, 77 tapered members, 65, 79 updating ‘drawings, 125 frozen views, 125 user cutbacks, 87 user sections create, 73, 15 create custom tables, 77 vertical braces, $8 views ‘3D model, 15 clevation, 21 foundation, 98 frozen, 118 plan, 17 styles, 26 walls holes in, 105 placing, 105, welcome. 7 wind loads, 130 ‘work point offsets, 84, 86