Some customers now have a Trimble Total Station for use in locating components in the field. HydraCAD has a tool to generate a hanger point file to be loaded into the Total Station, and that file can include seismic brace locations as well.
The command is located within the Create 3D Hangers command, found on the Hangers toolbar:
Picking this displays a dialog box with two options for Generate Points for Trimble Station, depending on the version of HydraCAD. The V52 button will generate the file when pushed, while the V53 check box will create the file upon picking the Create 3D Hangers button. There is also a Help button which will display the 'Generating a Hanger Point List for Use with Trimble Stations.pdf' file.
The help file explains how to load the resulting .csv file into a Trimble Total Station. Please refer to that for exact details.
Example Drawing
HydraCAD includes an example drawing showing some special considerations that must be made when generating the file. These include two ways of embedding the Origin Point for the Trimble and a way to denote seismic braces so their insertion points are also recorded. This drawing can be found in the HydraTools pulldown menu->Tools->Training Drawings… The drawing name is 'Generating a Hanger Point List for Use with Trimble Stations.dwg'.
It shows those two methods for Origin…
…and the one for Seismic Braces:
Please refer to it for more details.
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