Best Modeling Approach for Scaffolding Structure in Pro-E?

[Laserxenon]

Hello All,

If you have a minute, can you suggest how you would go about creating the attached file in Pro E?

It is a scaffolding based tower approximately 32 ft. tall. The model is simply for promotional purposes (ie inserting the model in a site picture to illustrate the concept), no FEA or anything like that. The joint details dont matter, neither does it matter if it is tube or solid construction, just circular x- sec. It really may not even be that important to have circular x-sec- they can be lines of a certain length as well.

I tried doing a closed sweep and this didnt work due to multiple closed sections. I thought about modeling individual elements (ie a frame) and then making an assembly of many parts, but this would be alot of work. I'm looking for a quick and dirty way to construct this to illustrate the concept, and highlight a few important dimensions.

Thanks for any input,
Drew

 

[looslib]

Modeling the components and doing it as an assembly will be the easiest. You can use mirror if both ends are identical.


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[dgallup]

There is an add-in module EFX (Expert Framework) that makes that kind of product much easier but I think it is rather $$.

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