Working With Shapes

Creating a section with Section Maker involves defining the geometry of the shapes by drawing in the Shape window. You can also use the pre-defined generation aids to automatically place common structural shapes into the section.

 

In this section:

§   Drawing a Shape

§   Moving a Shape

§   Copying and Pasting Shapes

§   Resizing a Shape

§   Deleting a Shape

§   Duplicating a Shape

§   Rotating a Shape

§   Rescaling a Shape

§   Reflecting Shapes

§   Making shapes equal in size

§   Aligning Shapes

§   Stacking Shapes

§   Converting Shapes to Polygons

§   Shape Properties

§   Grouping Shapes

§   Aligning to Centroid

§   Generating Standard Shapes

§   Using Existing Sections

§   Importing a Shape

§   Setting Materials

§   Viewing Properties

§   Validating the Shape

§   Adding a Section to the Library

§   Symbols

§   Legend