It may be that you don’t want to display detailed component parts, but you need the parts list information nevertheless. Or, you want to display certain elements, which have not been created with ProStructures, as a cell and you want their parts list data in your model as well.

By using the special shape command, you can add parts list information to any existing component parts. You only have to select the parts in question.

After having selected the command, you can select the component parts directly or you can create a cell from these parts by pressing <ESC>. Then, you select the parts and define the insertion point of the cell. Press and hold <ALT> while calling the function, you can create several special parts with the same properties.

After that, the following dialog appears:

Here, you can enter your parts list data and then, this part will be recognized as ProStructures component part.

You can modify this property using the right-click > Structural Properties command. You can use it at positioning and in the parts list as well. However, a 2D-depiction cannot be generated when no volume parts are contained.