Features

Features are additional geometric operations on Beams:

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Jack Rafter Cut Feature

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JackRafterCut feature cuts beam with a plane. The part of the beam lying on the z-positive side of the plane will be removed.

  • Beam : the beam to be trimmed.

  • Plane : the plane to trim the beam as a surface.

Note

Plane angle

Angle between the cutting plane and the beam axis must be > 0.01 and < 179.9.


Double Cut Feature

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DoubleCut feature cuts beam with two planes. The part of the beam lying on the z-positive sides of both planes will be removed.

  • Beam : the beam to be trimmed.

  • Plane_a : the first plane to trim the beam as a surface.

  • Plane_b : the second plane to trim the beam as a surface.

Drilling Feature

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Drilling feature is a boolean operation to subtract a cylindrical hole from a beam.

  • Beam : the beam to be drilled.

  • Line : the axis of the hole as a line

  • Diameter : the diameter of the hole

The output Feature is to be used as input for the Model component. See Model.