Create a simple Pier
Create a simple pier on the main girder.
The respective menu item is only available on girder segments. The chosen girder segment is girder where the pier will be connected to.
The geometrical position of the pier is defined by a connection point. This position refers to the cross section before or after at the segment point of the reference segment.
The dialog provides graphical selection of both, the segment point (station) at the main girder and the connection point in the respective cross section.
A pier has no real but an imaginary axis in vertical direction. The coordinate system is given by the coordinate system of the connected main girder. Analogously to the main girders, the cross sections of the pier is considered against the "axis direction", i.e. against the height. The horizontal axis of the cross section is the cross axis of the main girder and the vertical axis of the cross section points against the axis direction of the main girder.
The parameters which specify the pier are:
By the input above, the pier is geometrically determined, but it is not topologically connected to the main girder. That means, the beams of the main girder and the pier are still independent of each other. The connection to the main girder has to be created in the window of the segment points of the pier using the button "Connection".