So if some beams (identical both ends) are modelled west to east and other identical beams are modelled east to west, the first will have the symbol in the east end while the latter will have the symbols on the west end. Combining the thoughts about assemblies above the symbols on the beams will therefore appear at the end of each beam - not the north or the west or whatever. Depending on the style they can include orientation symbols for the beams (usually these appy to plan views only). Orientation marks are ALWAYS placed at the top left of the front view in an assembly drawing.

(This default could be overridden inside the drawing style itself.) So regardless of the compass direction or how the beam is drawn in the model, the first point of the beam will be on the right of the drawing. For example in the standard UK install this is set to Start Point on Right hand side. This influences which way round the front view goes. There is a system Default called Drawing Presentation > General > Orientation of members on a detail drawing. The assembly drawings will always draw a beam in a given orientation. Then you must produce the Assembly drawings before the GAs. This will trigger a North arrow in GA drawings (depending on style) so the north direction important for that but it has little to do with the orientation marks. No orientation marks will appear on any drawings until you place a compass symbol in the model. If this is not already asked for as a new idea, post it there. In terms of data that exists that is retrievable.

There the relation of detailing orientation (assembly drawing versus detail drawing) is needed. Obviously this is a different concept than what is asked for in the american steel industry.

Of course the compass is a 3D Object and bares 3D information and gets shown in 2D information, so there might be 2 views neccessary to get this direction information across. Changing the deatiling direction 180°, the compass should get rotated 180°. Important is not where the compass is, its location - that is only layout -, but how it is rotated in relation to the view respective the detail. By defining NSWE directions in the world ucs xy plane- the origin is of no importance- and showing the compass for a view and also for a detail, the orientation of a part in real world is readable. I think there is a misunderstanding what the compass is.īasically it is a local coordinate system that the user defines for a project and that gets shown in the assembly and detail drawings.

Advancesteel