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Create Basic Structural Frames

This document provides instructions for creating basic structural frames in an assembly file using the Insert Frame tool. The steps are: 1. Select the Insert Frame tool from the Design tab Frame panel. 2. Choose the frame member properties in the Insert dialog box such as size, material, and appearance. 3. Place the frame member in the assembly by selecting edges, points, or using offsets and rotation values.

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Create Basic Structural Frames

This document provides instructions for creating basic structural frames in an assembly file using the Insert Frame tool. The steps are: 1. Select the Insert Frame tool from the Design tab Frame panel. 2. Choose the frame member properties in the Insert dialog box such as size, material, and appearance. 3. Place the frame member in the assembly by selecting edges, points, or using offsets and rotation values.

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Create Basic Structural Frames

Start with an assembly file open.

1. On the ribbon, click Design tab Frame panel Insert Frame .


2. In the Insert dialog box, Frame Member Selection, select a frame member Standard,
then a Family, Size, Material, and Appearance.

Note: Select a single frame member in the graphics area or browser before you start
the Insert dialog box. Then the Standard, Family, Size, Material, and Appearance of
the selected frame member are the default values in the Insert dialog box. If you select
nothing, an object that is not a frame member, or multiple frame members, then the
last-used values are the defaults.

3. Optionally, select the eyedropper in the dialog and then a frame member to copy the
member properties and orientation.
4. In Orientation, a preview of the frame member with position manipulators is
displayed. Select options in the display or dialog to position the frame member in the
assembly. The Vertical and Horizontal Offsets, and Mirror Frame Member, adjust
accordingly. For precise offsets:

Drag the manipulator in the display, or enter a precise Vertical Offset value to
offset the frame member from the model.

Drag the manipulator in the display, or enter a precise Horizontal Offset value to
offset the frame member from the model.

Drag the manipulator in the display, or enter a precise rotation angle for the
member.

Check the Align box to select a geometry (planar face, linear edge, work axis, work
plane or sketch line) to which an inserted frame is aligned to.

Click Mirror Frame Member to flip the frame member for proper orientation on the
skeletal model.

Note: This option is not available if you check the Align box.

5. Select a placement method for placing the frame member in the assembly:

Insert Members on Edges


Select an edge or sketched 2D/3D lines on the model. The initial orientation of the
frame member is based on the first edge selected, and is previewed as a wireframe.
To insert a frame member on multiple lines or edges, use the context menu and select
Chain Select, or Sketch Select.

To exclude centerlines or construction lines from selection, clear the


Select Centerline or Select Construction check box.

You can select multiple edges and merge them into one frame member. For example,
you can select two edges and a bend between them, select the Merge check box, and
then click OK. The result is one frame member that sweeps along the three entities.

Insert Members between Points


Select a start point and endpoint on the skeletal model. The initial orientation of the
frame member is based on the start point selection in reference to the endpoint, and is
previewed as a wireframe.

Note: You cannot select both edges and endpoints to place a frame member, and you
cannot use batch selection when you insert members between points.

6. Click Apply. When you insert the first frame member for a new frame in the active
assembly, in the browser, under the active assembly, a new Frame subassembly is
added.

If there is no Frame subassembly under the current activated assembly document, the
Create New Frame dialog box displays before the File Naming dialog box.

If the Prompt for File Name check box is selected, the Frame Member Naming
dialog box displays. It automatically provides a Display Name and File Name and
places it in the project subfolder associated with the assembly model. You can change
the Display Name and File Name information. The frame member also displays in the
model browser.

Click OK to accept.

If the Prompt for File Name check box is not selected, a default name is used for the
frame member. The file is placed in the default location.

Note: You can copy and paste in the Frame Member Naming dialog box. If you
cancel, name changes and the frame members are created based on default names.

7. Continue to add more frame members, as needed.


8. When all frame members are added, click OK.

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