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Beam Profile Generator - Regeneration problem / Draw order?
brian_green
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I am having trouble getting a custom profile to generate correctly. The profile is a .75" x .75" x .125" angle. I have had no issue with creating other profiles (mostly sq. tube and lumber profiles).
Is anyone else having similar issues when creating custom profiles? The sketch is fully resolved. Is there a draw order I should be aware of? Or a relationship to the origin?
I have included some screenshots of the (1) extruded profile, (2) Profile Sketch and generated code (3) Copy and pasted code into Profile library.
Any help is welcome. Thx.
Is anyone else having similar issues when creating custom profiles? The sketch is fully resolved. Is there a draw order I should be aware of? Or a relationship to the origin?
I have included some screenshots of the (1) extruded profile, (2) Profile Sketch and generated code (3) Copy and pasted code into Profile library.
Any help is welcome. Thx.
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I realized that the error was in the "sequence". When I used the beam feature with an existing equal angle profile from the library, I realized its default position was in a different position relative to the origin than mine.
My previous attempts had the profile sketched in quadrant 1 and generated a sequence code of "LLLALALAL" .
When I rotated the sketch 270 deg about the origin, the profile was in quadrant 3 and generated the correct (matched the library sequence I was pasting into) sequence code "LLALALALL".
Thanks for the quick response. It's easy to get cross-eyed looking at all this code