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CADWorx Structure Editor

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CADWorx Version
20.2
CADWorx Structure Version
4.2

Mouse Icon CADWorx Structure Editor Project Libraries: Double-click a project library

Enables you to add or edit steel members for a library. The information in the list comes from the base catalog.

Click Show Data Table Show Data Table Spec Editor, when available, to display the Base Catalog Data and obtain more information.

You can copy and place any member in the Main Library List View in the same library or another library in the current project.

Component Setup

Steel Shape

Specifies the shape of the member to add.

Section Data Table

Specifies the data table used for the steel section, and populates the Member Size.

Material

Specifies the material for the component. To display the material on the component, define the Material Tables fields in the Long, Short, Tag, and Part Number Format Dialog Boxes.

Member Size

Specifies the size members to add.

Layer Name

Specifies the layer of the member. The layer defaults to the value set in the Layer Name of the Library Properties. The list of layers in the Layer Name comes from the Layer Manager. For more information, see Layer Manager.

Color Index

Specifies the color of the steel when it displays in a drawing. You can select 0 through 255 to specify color, or you can type the number of the color.

Description

Long

Specifies the long description for the member. You can change the long description by clicking the Long ellipsis which opens the Long Description Format dialog box. You can also type information in the Long box, and then click Apply to add the information. Blue words are keywords and you can select and copy them. Black text is a simple text string and can be edited as needed. For more information, see Long, Short, Tag, and Part Number Format Dialog Boxes.

Short

Specifies the short description of the member. You can change the short description by clicking the Short ellipsis which opens the Short Description Format dialog box. You can also type information in the Short box, and then click Apply to add the information. Blue words are keywords and you can select and copy them. Black text is a simple text string and can be edited as needed. For more information, see Long, Short, Tag, and Part Number Format Dialog Boxes.

Tag

Specifies the tag information of the member. You can change the tag format by clicking the Tag ellipsis which opens the Tag Format dialog box. You can also type information in the Tag box, and then click Apply to add the information. Blue words are keywords and you can select and copy them. Black text is a simple text string and can be edited as needed. For more information, see Long, Short, Tag, and Part Number Format Dialog Boxes.

Part Number

Specifies the part number information of the member. You can change the part number format by clicking the Part Number ellipsis which opens the Part Number Format dialog box. You can also type information in the Part Number box, and then click Apply to add the information. Blue words are keywords and you can select and copy them. Black text is a simple text string and can be edited as needed. For more information, see Long, Short, Tag, and Part Number Format Dialog Boxes.

Descriptions display in the Long Description, Short Description, Part Number, and Tag boxes shown in the Details tab of the Shapes palette in CADWorx Structure Editor. For more information, see Shapes in the CADWorx Structure Editor Users Guide.

The information the software displays in the Shapes palette is based on the associated component definition in the library. The component definition in the library contains fields for Short Description, Long Description, Tag, and Part Number. These boxes can be populated with text data or by setting the schema in the Long, Short, Tag, and Part Number Format Dialog Boxes or Description Format Dialog Boxes.

You can configure description schemas at the project level, the library level, and the component level. If you define a schema at any of these levels, then the software derives the description from that level.

Component level schemas take precedence over library level schemas and library level schemas take precedence over project level schemas. For instance, if Long in the Edit component pane displays Wide Flange, but Wide Flange in the Components tree of the Long Description Format dialog box displays Wide Flange New, then the information displaying in CADWorx Structure displays as Wide Flange. If you remove the schema definition from Long in the Edit component pane, then when you place a Wide Flange in the model, the wide flange would display as Wide Flange New reading from the project level.

When the description format is empty at the component level, then the box under Description in the New and Edit Component Pane reads Using Library Format. If the description format is empty at the component level and at the library level, then the box under Description in the New and Edit Component Pane reads Using Project Format.

Notes

Specifies any notes attached to the component.

If you receive a red exclamation Red exclamation for missing data spec editor or a warning triangle Warning triangle spec editor, hover over it with your mouse to identify additional detail on possible data issues.