The physgun beam will no longer be weighed down by heavy ragdolls and props and will make it much easier to manipulate them. Addendum: Making these the defaults These settings DO NOT save!
For some, this may be annoying as you may wish for these to be the defaults for your game.
Making them save is easy, right click Garry's Mod in your Steam library, go to properties, local files and then click "Browse local files..." This will open up your Garry's Mod game folder.
Next, open the "garrysmod" folder, then the "cfg" folder.
Open the file "autoexec.cfg" in Notepad or another text editor of your choice. If the file does not exist, copy the path to the cfg folder, open a text editor, then save the empty file as "autoexec.cfg" inside the cfg folder.
Once you've got an autoexec file open, put the two console command above into it on seperate lines.
This means the game will automatically run these commands by itself and you will not need to type them in every time!