Creating a Profile Based on an Extracted Beam

  1. Sketch the profile.
  2. Click Pull in the Edit group on the Design tab.
  3. Pull to extrude the profile into a solid.
  4. Click Extract in the Beams group on the Prepare tab.
  5. Select the solid you created in the previous steps.
  6. Right-click the profile in the Beam Profiles folder and select Save beam profile.
  7. Browse to the folder where you want to save the profile, type a file name, and click Save.

By default, the Section Anchor lies on the centroid of the profile. The Section Anchor is the point where the profile attaches to the beam path. You can change this in two ways.

  • Use the Orient tool in the Beams group of the Prepare tab
  • Select the beam and change the Section Anchor property