Part Construction

The part table for the beam, which was created using the third method described above, is shown below. The Offset variables are not included, as each part is just created with them at a value of zero.

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# Family Table:         Base Dir:       fpts.beam-profile
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Member_name   Flange  Fl_Th   Web_Th  Web_Ht  Draft   Fillet  Round   Weight  Full_Filename

Weight is not used by CADDS5, but is there to provide information to the designers. The Ryerson catalog that was used for these families included the weight per foot of each of the members, so that information was included here. As in previous models, the Full_Filename contains the full partname of the member.

Four additional related families were also created along with the beam. They are a tee (See Figure 4.14), a channel (See Figure 4.15), an angle (See Figure 4.16), and a zee (See Figure 4.17). Their construction methods are shown below. The variables and equations are not shown as they are the same as the ones from the beam.

• Tee Construction
• Channel Construction
• Angle Construction
• Zee Construction

Last Modified: Wed Aug 28 14:41:29 EDT 1996