Adding Hangers - Autodesk 235B1-05A761-1301 - AutoCAD MEP 2010 User Manual

6 For Rod Style, select the structural member style to represent the rod.
7 For Rod Offset, enter the distance between the edge of the support and the rod.
8 For Rod Overrun, enter the distance between the bottom of the support and the end of the rod.

Adding Hangers

You can add hangers to ducts, pipes, cable trays, and conduits. You cannot add hangers to fittings.
When you add a hanger, the midpoint of the hanger top is positioned relative to the midpoint of the bottom
of the building system object to which it is anchored. Because the hanger is anchored to the object, when
the object moves, the hanger moves with it. When the object is deleted, the hanger is also deleted.
To add hangers
1 Start the add command by doing one of the following:
2 For Hanger Style, select the hanger style to use.
IMPORTANT You can select from the structural member styles in the current drawing that include
both of the following words in their names or descriptions: hanger and rod.
Open the Tools palette, and click the Add Hanger Support tool, if available.
On the command line, enter hangeradd.
You can select from the hanger styles defined in the current drawing.
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