Steel Generator
48.3 mm steel · Q-Clamp D48
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every length of steel on the job — press a length to light them up
Fit
Sheets, exports and the rest

Tap a bay to lay a board · drag a size on for the odd one · tap a board to change it

Cut from the shape of the joint — count the arms of steel out of it, a bar passing through being two. A leg that finishes in the clamp is capped, not cut for.
Measured on the centreline, because the wrap runs the full length of the bar · 10% on the end for overlaps and cut-offs · the colours come from Padding in the settings
What each height IS: a named floor, an intermediate deck, or bare steel · type new heights, then press Move — boards, uprights and everything between follow
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    3ds Max frames to Q-Clamp steel — cut lists, clamp schedules and level plans.

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    Getting around
    The view
    Wheel buttonspin it round
    Left buttondrag the frame about
    Wheelzoom in and out
    Left clickchoose a bar, a clamp, a bracket or a board
    Right buttondrags the frame about as well
    Click, then dragmove the thing you chose — a bar stops where its clamp would meet the next one on the leg
    Shift-clickgather several bars: three in a line get a Join into one bar button; shift-click one again to take it out
    Anything chosenthe view turns around that, like Max
    Keys
    /find a leg, a clamp or a length
    Aadd brackets
    Dadd a diagonal
    Ladd a leg
    Eshow or hide the deck boards
    Wwhat is drawn — steel, clamps, ST brackets, bearings, boards
    Legendpress a cut length or a clamp in the legend to light up every one of them in the view — press it again, or Esc, to put the rest back
    Padd a post — an upright between two bars: tap the bar it starts on, then the bar it runs to
    Uadd a curved horizontal — tap where it passes through to bend it
    Radd a horizontal — tap an upright at the height you want, or a bar to run one across a bay, then tap what it runs to
    Badd a bearing
    Operspective / orthographic
    Mmeasure between two points
    Csection through the frame
    Zfit the frame in the view
    Fmaximise the view
    S / Bhide the settings / the tables
    Ctrl+Z / Ctrl+Yundo, redo
    Deletetake off the board you chose
    Hjobs
    Vsite view
    Escclose, or bring hidden steel back
    Panels
    Drag the titlemove the panel
    Drag the cornerresize it
    Boards
    Boards tabFill lays a board in every bay the steel frames
    Tap a baylay one board there
    Drag a size onthe odd board — a double, a strip, one past the steel
    Fit grida board the size of whichever grid cell it lands on
    Deletea board: tap it and press Delete, or the Delete button on its card. Steel: click the bar or leg and press Delete, or the Delete button on its card — anything from the model is only hidden, and Put them back under the job name restores it.
    Shapeon the board card: the whole board, or a half board with its square corner where you put it. Steel cuts it along the diagonal horizontal underneath, Flip keeps the other piece.
    Tap a boardmake on site, void, colour, join, split, remove
    Show boardson the Plans tab draws them over the steel