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It's been a little while since I put anything up, but finally, a little bit of time to get something blogged.
I had one of those 'A-HA!' moments a little while ago. You know, that one that makes you wonder why you didn't think of it sooner?
I was working with a friend, and they showed me this way of creating a skeleton for your frame generator.
Create a solid!
Here's a couple of quick steps on how it's done.
1) Create a solid, and drop it into an assembly. I changed the color to red so it would show better.
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2) On your assembly panel, switch to the Frame Generator.
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3) Now you can insert your frame members on the edge of the solid. You can also use the point to point tool to create diagonal bracing!
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Have fun trying this out! There's a couple of places this definitely would have made my life easier.
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