Form: Cable Insertion Point
Use the Assign menu > Cable > Insertion Point command to access the Cable Insertion Point form and assign any joint offsets to selected cable objects. Joint offsets are used to calculate the object axis.
Select the cable object to which the joint offset is to be assigned.
Click the Assign menu > Cable > Insertion Point command to access the Cable Insertion Point form.
Coord System. Select the coordinate system within which the cardinal point is being assigned from the drop-down list.
Cable Joint Offsets. Specify the End-I and End-J locations in the 1, 2, and 3 axes edit boxes. Sometimes the axis of the object cannot be conveniently specified by joints that connect to other objects in the structure. You have the option to specify joint offsets independently at each end of the object. These are given as the three distance components (X, Y, and Z) parallel to the global axes, measured from the joint to the end of the object (at the insertion point.)
The two locations given by the coordinates of joints i and j, plus the corresponding joint offsets, define the axis of the object. These two locations must not be coincident. It is generally recommended that the offsets be perpendicular to the axis of the object, although this is not required.
Do not transform frame stiffness for offsets from centroid check box. When this check box is checked, the cable stiffness for offsets will not be transformed from the centroid.
Reset Defaults button. Use the Reset Defaults button to reapply default settings to the selected frame.
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