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This is not related to the way the built-in solver is distributed. Under Options / Solvers, please select “Write temporary results” and let us know.
Please also tell your exact version of Windows and bitness.Thanks for your model; we tried to run it successfully, unfortunately we cannot reproduce your issue. If you updated from an installation of a previous version of NextFEM Designer, please uninstall Designer and do a clean installation of v.1.8. This resolved the same problem in some cases.
Let us know, regardsHello,
in NextFEM we want user to have a more strict control on the modelling, that’s why we opted out to implement this feature in a plugin.Hello,
it’s very simple to customize material libraries. Simply edit the text files in program installation folder / data (e.g. C:\Program Files\NextFEM\NextFEM Designer 64bit\data\Steel-MC EN.nfm). All files with nfm extension are for material library.Simply add lines you need by following order of required characteristics. Please find attached the modified “Steel-MC EN.nfm” which includes Q345B and Q235B.
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Press F3, you’ll see the options for turning on/off output stations.
For APIs, see https://www.nextfem.it/api/html/M_NextFEMapi_API_getBeamForce.htmHello,
thanks for your interest in NextFEM Designer!
As per Finite Element Method, this is not possible – mesh has to be consistent, which means that if you don’t mesh the line element, you’ll have shells only attached to corners.
You always see the results for the entire beam! Maybe you meant about checking – to consider the beams as unique during verifications, use members (Assign / Members).Shell results in OpenSees are extrapolated from GPs to nodes, internally in Designer.
There’s no discrepancies in the results obtained – I kindly ask to use less-alarming topic titles.
We’ll have a look on out-of-plane moments sign.EDIT: consider also that shell formulations may differ.
Thanks for the tests, we extended the support in the patch released some minutes ago.
For usage with OpenSees, remember that equivalent point loads works only with Euler-Bernulli beams (deselected the proper option prior to export) and for fiber elements. Point load inside beams are not supported in OS by elastic Timoshenko beams.
We implemented a new method to distribute floor load to beams based on quadrilateral 2-way distribution (classic tributary area method). This will produce your NU distribution.
It will be published in the next patch.This is applied for updates and support only. Activation will only be checked yearly, that means that there are automatic controls – it does not mean license will expire!