Bentley Structural Modeller > CADtools Add-ons > ‘GEO Member’ tools (User defined sections for Structural members)

The ‘Place GEO member’ tools allows users to place members based on the sections available in the ‘OasysGEOSections’ part of the Shapes Explorer.

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The ‘ToolSettings’ dialog for the Place GEO Member tool. Selecting the ‘Tri’ section created in the previous step.

This tool works similar to the built-in Bentley tools, allowing the user to place GEO members by either end points, or along a path (or paths if a number of elements are selected).

Once placed the User3 and User4 datafields will be populated with the Section name, and Rotation (respectively).

		Placing a GEO member, note the ‘placement line’ is derived from the 0,0,0 about which the original shape was drawn.
		The resulting element placement

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Placing GEO members