Topic: Autocad - Hidden shademode shows tangential lines

[CADaver]

Sorry Josh, it's been that way a long time and there's nothing I've found that will make 'em go away.   My 3D steel routine leaves the fillets out.

Wait, let me guess... you just have a LSP that draws the shape directly from the spreadsheet included with the AISC Steel Manual cd, huh?

I'm thinking I may need to do that... or find one online that already has o.0

Good guess.  The first one I built, twenty years ago, I had to buy the list from AISC for a hundred bucks, now it comes with the book.

[CADaver]

I think I've found a good routine that doesn't include the fillets.... after trying 5 others out.

It creates polyface meshes, not 3dsolids.. which sucks.

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On the plus side, I can use a simple stretch command if I need to lengthen or shorten the beam... on the down side, you can't COPE the beam, by simple subtracting a solid from it... and we do mostly welded connections since we serve offshore companies with a whole lot of welders on staff.

R2007 allows push-pulling solids, that's the direction I use.

I uh... hmph... man this is no fun.  I'm going to have to make my own I think.  Man I don't time for this.  I'm going to have to use the dang solprof command to get these drawings out....

gack....

or I guess the smarter thing is to remove the fillet from the beams...

bingo

luckily they are two, small, platforms... bleh...

Thank goodness for small favors.