Creating and Positioning Primary Nodes

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Structural Design Using Catalogue Components : Creating and Positioning Primary Nodes

Creating and Positioning Primary Nodes

The first step in creating a new piece of structural steelwork is often the creation and positioning of a network of Primary Nodes within the 3D design model. PNOD elements are created, as for other Design elements, by using the NEW command. They may be positioned either by using a standard positioning command or by setting the NPOS (Node Position) attribute directly.

Nodes have no physical size: their positions are used to define the points in space between which steel Sections are to be positioned/strung.


Example:
NEW PNOD /PNOD1 AT E1000 Y500 Z500 (At FRMW or SBFR level)	Creates a Primary Node named /PNOD1 at the specified position.
NEW PNOD /PNOD2 COPY PREV BY E1000	Creates a Primary Node which is displaced from the previous one in the specified way.
NEW PNOD /PNOD3 NPOS E2000 N1000 D500	Creates /PNOD3, then places it at the specified position.

Command Syntax:

>-- NPOSition -- <bpos> -->

(The standard element creation syntax is described in Standard Syntax Graphs.)

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