Generation

You can automatically generate regular structures or portions of structures to start a new model or add to an existing model.

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Access the Generation types from the Home tab by clicking on the Templates button. You will see the following options, which require you to specify basic parameters to generate structures with beam elements, plates, or a combination of both.

Note:

To generate items that are not coincident to the global axes first define them in the global directions and then rotate them into the correct position.
The plate and member generation is optional for each generation. For example the cone generator can generate a cone of nodes, members and plates or just a cone of nodes.
The generations are powerful but as a result of this some also have many options. Remember that any generation may be undone by clicking Undo so don’t hesitate to try something just to see what it does.

The following topics provide more detail for each of the options.