Isolated foundations - Modelling piles to an element face

Transcript

00:04

We'll now continue to place some more piling on this grade beam here.

00:08

Now, we're going to use a slightly different placement method here,

00:11

I'm going to place down the pile on face.

00:15

So to do this, we'll go to our structure ribbon

00:18

and once again in the foundation panel, we'll select isolated foundation.

00:24

The default placement method is place on face.

00:27

So now if I move my cursor over various different structural elements,

00:31

you'll now notice I can place this pile at various different levels.

00:35

I'm going to begin by selecting a random

00:37

location on the underside of this grade beam.

00:41

So now that I have one pile positioned,

00:43

we'll now switch our view to the structural plan top of foundation.

00:48

If we zoom in here, we can see that we have one of those piles on our grade beam

00:53

to help me see this better.

00:54

I'm just going to temporarily change my visual style to wireframe.

00:59

Now, of course,

00:59

here I can accurately position the pile on the

01:01

center line of the beam just by dragging it.

01:04

And you can now see here, I've captured the grid center line,

01:07

which in fact is the center line of our grade beam.

01:10

I'm going to start by setting out our pile to the end of the grade beam

01:14

here. I'll use the temporary dimension and I'll move the witness line

01:18

and we'll set this to 2 ft

01:21

with the pile still selected.

01:22

We can now go ahead and select the array to on the modifier panel.

01:27

Again, on the options bar, we'll ensure that we have a linear array

01:32

and that the piles are going to be grouped and associated

01:35

in this example.

01:36

Again, we're going to move this to the last position on the grade beam.

01:39

So we'll select our start point here

01:42

and we can select our end point on the center line of this wall.

01:48

We can now see that we have our quantity shown on screen

01:53

and we'll set our quantity here to 12.

01:56

And of course, we can now see all of our pining placed out along our grade beam.

02:01

Again, let's inspect our design in 3D.

02:04

So we'll switch to the 3D foundation's view

02:07

and we can now see our pining placed out along the grade beam.

02:11

If I now select the grade beam in the properties palette in the type selector,

02:15

I'm going to select edit type.

02:18

And here you can see that we currently have a height set of 1 ft and 10 inches.

02:23

I'm going to set this to 3 ft

02:25

and then select, ok.

02:27

And of course, we'll now notice that the great beam gets deeper.

02:30

And of course, order piles have updated because they're placed on face.

02:36

So in summary here,

02:37

rather than placing the piles down in plan and then offsetting

02:40

them down to meet the underside of the structural foundations,

02:43

we can simply use a face based family and either place those

02:47

on reference planes or on the bottom face of our structural foundations.

Video transcript

00:04

We'll now continue to place some more piling on this grade beam here.

00:08

Now, we're going to use a slightly different placement method here,

00:11

I'm going to place down the pile on face.

00:15

So to do this, we'll go to our structure ribbon

00:18

and once again in the foundation panel, we'll select isolated foundation.

00:24

The default placement method is place on face.

00:27

So now if I move my cursor over various different structural elements,

00:31

you'll now notice I can place this pile at various different levels.

00:35

I'm going to begin by selecting a random

00:37

location on the underside of this grade beam.

00:41

So now that I have one pile positioned,

00:43

we'll now switch our view to the structural plan top of foundation.

00:48

If we zoom in here, we can see that we have one of those piles on our grade beam

00:53

to help me see this better.

00:54

I'm just going to temporarily change my visual style to wireframe.

00:59

Now, of course,

00:59

here I can accurately position the pile on the

01:01

center line of the beam just by dragging it.

01:04

And you can now see here, I've captured the grid center line,

01:07

which in fact is the center line of our grade beam.

01:10

I'm going to start by setting out our pile to the end of the grade beam

01:14

here. I'll use the temporary dimension and I'll move the witness line

01:18

and we'll set this to 2 ft

01:21

with the pile still selected.

01:22

We can now go ahead and select the array to on the modifier panel.

01:27

Again, on the options bar, we'll ensure that we have a linear array

01:32

and that the piles are going to be grouped and associated

01:35

in this example.

01:36

Again, we're going to move this to the last position on the grade beam.

01:39

So we'll select our start point here

01:42

and we can select our end point on the center line of this wall.

01:48

We can now see that we have our quantity shown on screen

01:53

and we'll set our quantity here to 12.

01:56

And of course, we can now see all of our pining placed out along our grade beam.

02:01

Again, let's inspect our design in 3D.

02:04

So we'll switch to the 3D foundation's view

02:07

and we can now see our pining placed out along the grade beam.

02:11

If I now select the grade beam in the properties palette in the type selector,

02:15

I'm going to select edit type.

02:18

And here you can see that we currently have a height set of 1 ft and 10 inches.

02:23

I'm going to set this to 3 ft

02:25

and then select, ok.

02:27

And of course, we'll now notice that the great beam gets deeper.

02:30

And of course, order piles have updated because they're placed on face.

02:36

So in summary here,

02:37

rather than placing the piles down in plan and then offsetting

02:40

them down to meet the underside of the structural foundations,

02:43

we can simply use a face based family and either place those

02:47

on reference planes or on the bottom face of our structural foundations.

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