Check the Member Connections

Before you add extra members to the support template, you should understand how the members of the template are connected to each other.

Each member has a Start and an End. Each start and end has a Connection type, which can be Attached, Anchored, Owner or None.

The connections between one template member and another are Joints. Each Joint has an Owner and an Attached member. If you are going to add members to a template, the current element must be the element which owns the Joint.

1. Select Check > Support from the menu at the top of the Modify Support Template form, and the Check Member Connections form displays.

   

2. In the Member scrollable list of SCTNs, select a member. The information about the member is then shown on the form.

3. Click View to see the Start and End of the member shown by letters in the graphical view. Alternatively, select the arrow button and pick the member in the graphical view.