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Creating custom cone top columns

Creating custom cone top columns

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Creating custom cone top columns

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- So here is the unique type of column I would like to model. The type with the bell at the top. You see them quite a bit especially in older structures. I see people would just put in a regular column and not model the entire top assembly which to me is bad practice. Okay to get started, under FAMILIES let's go New. Browse to your region, scroll down to structural column. Click Open. Notice there's a few parameters already here. So let's get started by adding the Cap Size parameter. On the Quick Access tool bar, let's click Aligned Dimension. Notice that these are already aligned to our reference plans so we got a head start. From here to here, up to there, from here to here, down to here. Hit Escape a couple of times. Hold then your Control Key and select both of these parameters. Click the Create Parameter button, let's call it Cap Size and click OK. It's pretty small so let's flex that. Go to Family Types…

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