Download - Structural Desktop

It should be noted that elements will also follow the Top of Member command. Since
elements commonly rest on top of the members that support them, the program is
constructed to place elements with the plate of the surface at the elevation specified. If
the elements were created to extrude upward (counter-clockwise numbering) then the
representation of the element will display that element with the bottom at the elevation
given to the command. Elements that extrude in the opposite direction will have their
tops at the elevation specified.
Top of Member - Slope
The Top of Member - Slope function enables you to:
Take an analytical model with a flat roof and modify the roof to a designated slope.
Take an analytical model with a designated roof slope and adjust members so that the
tops of the members are in the same plane.
Alter the slope of the roof of a model.
Top of Member - Slope is designed to deal with roofs that have a slope in the direction
of the X or Y-axis in AutoCAD. The dialog box that you will see after you select this
command from the menu and select members to be modified appears in Figure 4 - 13.
Figure 4 - 13
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