Create Intermediate Posts

To create either a single post at a specified point or a row of posts between two specified points.

Creating a Single Post

The user can specify the position for a single post in either of two ways:

• As an explicit point

• As the location of a p-point of an existing floorplate

Create > Post > At Explicit, a form is displayed on which the user can enter the coordinates of the point at which the base of the post is to be positioned.

Create > Post > At P-Point, the user is prompted to pick a p-point on a floorplate. The easiest way to do this is to position the cursor anywhere on the required floorplate and hold down the left-hand mouse button as the cursor is moved. The p-points is shown as blobs and the cursor shape changes from to when it is over a p-point.

Create a Row of Posts

To create a row of posts between the following pairs of points:

• The ends of two existing handrails

• Two existing posts (which may be corner posts or intermediate posts)

• One end of an existing handrail and an existing post (which may be a corner post or an intermediate post)

In all cases, the posts are equispaced and the number of posts are calculated automatically from the distance between the points and the maximum permitted post pitch (as set in the current defaults file).

The user is asked whether or not the new row of posts is to have handrails.

Create > Post > Between Handrail Ends, the user is prompted to pick p–points on the top elbows of two handrails.

Create > Post > Between Posts, the user is prompted to pick two posts. Pick the cylinders forming the main uprights in each case.

Create > Post > Between End and Post, is prompted to first to pick a post and then pick a p-point on the top elbow of a handrail.