Learning outcomes
- How to create tubes and swivel couplers.
- Add a swivel coupler at the standard centreline.
- Copy the coupler across.
- Override snapping priorities on the copy.
- Add a tube and increase its length from the middle point of the tube.
- Adjust command – adjust swivel coupler position and head location automatically.
- Copy-mirror command – copy the couplers across.
- Move special command – move tube braces with couplers by a defined distance.
Video
Timestamps
0:00 Introduction
0:22 Add swivel coupler at the standard centreline
0:47 Copy the coupler across
1:13 Override snapping priorities on the copy
1:41 Create a tube from a coupler
1:56 Copy-mirror command – copy the tube brace with couplers across
2:31 Move special command – move tube braces with couplers by defined distance
3:05 Copy-mirror command – copy the tube braces with couplers over to another bay
3:44 Move special command – move tube braces with couplers to avoid a clash
Useful links
Scaffold Item tool - Component positioning on the insertion (couplers)
Scaffold Item Tool - Component rotation around axis and endpoints (couplers)
Scaffold Item Tool - Position a swivel coupler and adjust the swivel head