Create Category for Fitting

Using the Steelwork mode of PARAGON it is possible to create a structural fitting such as a Lifting Lug using data sets and design parameters.

A Fitting Category must reside below a STSE which in turn must reside below a CATA element.

Create Category for Fitting

1. Select Create, then select Catalogue to open the Create Catalogue Form. Create a new Steelwork Catalogue in the database hierarchy with the purpose set to STL.

2. Select Create, then select Section to open the Create Section Form. Create a new Steelwork Section in the database hierarchy with the purpose set to STL.

3. Select Create, then select Category for Fittings. The Category for Fittings form is similar in layout to a standard Create Category Form, but contains added sub forms specific to Steelwork Fittings.

   Populate the form with a set of data as follows:

   

   Make sure that the values are also populated.

4. Click Geometry Ref in the Model References part of the form to open the Geometry References sub form.

   

   Initially, the Geometry References sub form will appear unpopulated.

5. Create a New SBOX element by selecting SBOX in the Positive drop-down menu and

6. Populate the remainder of the form as shown in the following image:

   

7. Click Data Ref in the Model References part of the form to open the Data References sub form.

8. Create the first data element by clicking NEW and declare this as a Design Parameter as below.

   

9. Create three additional Data References with the Definition set to Expression, and with the following values:

   Description	Key	Expression
   Height of Hole From Base	LHEI	100
   Lug Radius	LRAD	40
   Hole Diameter	LHOL	50

   The populated form should appear as follows:

   

10. Click Geometry Ref in the Model References part of the form to open the Geometry References sub form.

11. Select SEXT from the Positive pulldown to create a new Structural Extrusion.

12. Populate the form as shown in the following image:

    

13. Click Modify Points to open the Modify Points sub form.

14. Click NEW to add a new point.

15. Enter values into the columns of the newly created point.

16. Highlight a row and click Copy to duplicate the point.

17. Create a set of Lug Profile points as below:

    

18. Select PPoint Ref in the Model References part of the form.

19. Select Cartesian P-Point (PTCA) then populate the form as below:

    

20. Click Geometry Ref in the Model References part of the form to open the Geometry References sub form.

21. Click on the SEXT element in the list of Geometry References

22. Select NLCY from the pulldown list of Negative geometry.

23. Populate the NLCY element with the following values:

    

24. Once the form has been populated, open the Representation form:

    

25. Click Holes Drawn to display the NLCY as a hole in the Structural Extrusion.

26. To improve the rendering level of the curve on the lug specify a numeric value of 1-10 in the Arc Tolerance field. The value of 1 provides the best visual quality and a value of 10 being the most optimized for speed.

27. At this point a Part Family and Table Group can be created from the Category, then selected from Design.