Wall corbel
Use the Wall corbel tool to insert a short bracket at the face of a wall for supporting beams, slabs, or other horizontal elements.
When you select Wall corbel, a tool palette opens.
Main tools
- Define – place a new wall corbel on an existing wall
- Properties – check or edit the properties of an existing wall corbel. Opens the Default settings dialogue for the selected corbel
- Default settings – set default parameters for wall corbel geometry, connection, and material (read below in more detail)
Placement setting
Available when the Define tool is selected.
- Side – choose the wall side where the corbel will be placed
- Plus – places corbel in the walls positive z’ direction
- Minus – places corbel in the walls negative z’ direction
Default settings dialogue
When you press the Default settings button, a dialogue window opens.
This dialogue contains three tabs: General, Connection, and Material.
General tab
This tab defines the geometry and placement of the wall corbel relative to the host wall and its loading configuration.
- Identifier – optional name or label for the corbel
- Side – drop-down menu to choose the wall side where the corbel will be placed
- Plus – places corbel in the walls positive z’ direction
- Minus – places corbel in the walls negative z’ direction
- l – length of the corbel perpendicular to the wall
- h1 – height of the corbel front edge
- h2 – height of the corbel connection to the wall
- x – longitudinal distance from wall reference line to the applied load
Connection and Material tabs
These follow standard practices for shell components and are defined elsewhere.
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To read more about these settings, see the relevant topics below:
- For Connection tab see:
User interface ➔ Tab menus ➔ Structure ➔ Additional dialogues ➔ Edge connections - For Material tab see:
User interface ➔ Tab menus ➔ Structure ➔ Additional dialogues ➔ Regular Material