When you place structural steel from the Inventor Content Center, parts are created that conform to standards. I, too, have been designing frames using the registered dimensions as they are.However, ...

When selecting products, builders must account for spans—the clear distances between supports. Spans are based on uniform gravity loads and may be evaluated for wind. Typically, the design of ...

Everything begins by locating the centroid. That step precedes the rest, because moments of inertia, radii of gyration, and section moduli are all measured from centroidal axes, and any shift in the ...