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david_peterson
2011-02-04, 08:26 PM
I'm sure I know the answer is (because that's the way we wrote the program) but.....I have a question about posts.
I have a bunch of short platforms for AHU and Chiller supports. So I know the post needs to be 4' tall. So I think to myself, self, lets do a post with base constraint of level 4 and a top constraint of level 4 with a 4'-0" offset making the post 4' tall. If you do that, you can't copy the posts. Why not?
I think I may have found my workaround by setting the base to level 3, then offsetting it by the floor to floor height.
I still find this strange that I can't have the top and bottom constraint at the same level and use offsets.

m20roxxers
2011-02-04, 11:45 PM
Why don't u just set it to unconnected. You will have issues your analytical model of the structural column will be set to 0. Since the analytical model relies on the top and bottom constraints unless it have been changed manually.