Place Designed Solid

El comando Place Designed Equipment se utiliza para crear equipos altamente personalizados para
necesidades de modelado complejo.

Designed Solids son esencialmente contenedores para una colección de formas que se pueden añadir o
sustraer al sólido. Para colocar un Designed Solid, es necesario colocar un Designed Equipment o un
Designed Equipment Component en el modelo.

 Las Shapes de un design Equipment se pueden mover bajo la jerarquía de un Designed

Solids, de la misma forma que se cambia un parent System.

E.g. colocamos el Designed Equipment: EQUIPO_1

Cada forma que se agregue al Designed Solid puede agregar material al Sólido parent, remover material
del mismo, o no afectar al parent (“Supressed”). En el Workspace explorer, los Shapes aparecerán
indicados con un ícono que demuestra su condición Add , Substract o Supress . Por defecto,
los shapes aparecerán en condición Add

Al seleccionar un Shape, se puede modificar dicha condición:

Funciones booleanas de Shapes: ADD, SUBSTRACT, SUPRESS

Shape ADD
SUBSTRACT

SUPRESS . Esta operación se utiliza para crear geometrías de construcción como referencia para la
colocación de otras formas. La forma suprimida no se incluye en el Designed Solid, por lo tanto no
afectará cálculos del peso y CG.
Create a basic solid
1. Place a designed equipment or a designed equipment component using the Equipment >
Civil > Miscellaneous equipment type.

Place designed equipment

Place designed equipment component

You must use the Equipment > Civil > Miscellaneous equipment type for the
software to correctly calculate the mass properties of the solid (volume, surface area,
weight, and center of gravity).

2. With the designed equipment or designed equipment component that you created in step
1 selected, click Place Designed Solid .

The software adds the new designed solid as a child of the designed equipment or
equipment component.

3. Click Place Shape , and then select the first shape for your designed solid.
4. In the Shape Properties dialog box, type the dimensions of your first shape, and then
click OK.

The software adds the shape to the designed solid in Workspace Explorer and places the
shape in the model at the point that you indicate.

5. On the ribbon, select whether the shape adds , subtracts , or is suppressed . Use
suppressed for construction graphics and for shapes you want to temporarily remove from
affecting the design solid.
6. Click Place Shape , and then select the next shape for your designed solid.
7. In the Shape Properties dialog box, type the dimensions for the second shape, and then
click OK.
8. Identify the location of the second shape in the model.

If you are placing a cylinder, cone, or eccentric cone shape, use the Shape Reference
option on the toolbar to select the end plane of the cylinder or cone when using the Mate
relationship to a plane of another shape.

9. On the ribbon, select whether the second shape adds , subtracts , or is suppressed .
10. Continue to added shapes to the designed solid using the add, subtract, and suppress
options as needed.

Import shape to designed solid

 1. Click Place Imported Shape from File on the vertical toolbar.
2. Select the parent designed solid in a graphic view or in the Workspace Explorer.
3. In the Select Shape File dialog box, navigate to and select the SAT file or MicroStation
DGN file that contains the shape to insert. Click OK.
4. In the Display Aspect list box, select the aspects from the list.

You can click Format > View and change the Render Selected Aspects option in the
Format View dialog box to display the aspect in the active graphic view.

5. Click OK.
6. Click in the graphic view to select an approximate location or reference element for a
relationship for the shape.

SAT File Limitations

 From a performance point of view, the SAT file size should be less than 5 MB.
 From a drawings point of view, the files must not be detailed and must not spread across
a large space as they are caught in volume filters for Drawings.
 Spreading the SAT files across multiple equipment will reduce the volume of each .sat
file.
 For efficient Interference Checker processing, SAT files should not have a footprint
(range) greater than 100 meters.

Switch add, subtract, or suppressed shape

1. Click Select on the vertical toolbar.
2. Set the locate filter to Shape.
3. In a graphic view or in Workspace Explorer, select the shape to edit.
4. On the ribbon, select whether the shape adds , subtracts , or is suppressed .

Order shapes in designed solid

1. Click Select on the vertical toolbar.
2. Set the locate filter to Solids.
3. Select the parent designed solid whose shapes you want to re-order.
4. Click Operators List on the ribbon.
5. In the Order Shapes dialog box, use the Up, Down, Top, and Bottom commands to
order the shapes as needed.
6. Click Apply or OK to save your changes and update the designed solid.

See Place Designed Solid for more information on why the order of shapes in a solid is
important.