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Thanks for your interest in NextFEM Designer.
We’ll reply your email asap. Be aware that for exporting in SAP2000 format you need the General Module active.
RegardsHello,
firstly, you’re using OpenSees, you can use NextFEM Designer as pre- and post- processor.
“Vertloads” is a procedure for applying vertical loads, it is only a symbolic name to signify to the user that he/she should apply at that time the vertical loads.
You have to write the function by yourself, for example using this template:proc VertLoads {pattern} { pattern Plain $pattern Linear { # put all your vertical loads inside here... eleLoad -ele 2110 2111 2112 2113 2114 2120 2121 2122 2123 2124 2130 2131 2132 2133 2134 2140 2141 2142 2143 2144 -type -beamUniform 0 0 -14.0 ... }hope this helps.
32bit version is sometimes more stable than 64. The uncompatibilities derives from opensees code – memory allocation technique -, so there’s no safe version.
Hello,
yes, this is the correct way. Please report the error you get, in order to make us able to help further.
The documentation can be found here.Keep in mind that rSpectrum library is not covered by our support, since in some PCs it can terminates without errors due to some incompatibilities in opensees code.
Dear user,
sections from libraries cannot be imported from a text or CSV file – however, we would improve the import procedure from SAP2000. Please provide an excerpt or the whole .s2k file to us at info@nextfem.it, to check if the new code suits your case.regards
Alternative way:
1. on the screen you posted, click on “I accept the agreement” as to make the control focused;
2. press Tab and then spacebar. This will enable the checkbox for privacy policy acceptance, hidden on your screen. You should then be allowed to proceed.regards
Dear user,
there’s another check introduced with this update, next to accept privacy policy.
It seems it’s hidden, since you’re using big fonts in Windows screen settings. Please revert to normal fonts size and retry, let us know if it works.regards
Dear jalogi2,
the unsupported features are simply neglected during import.
Please check also if the s2k file is plain text file or not.
To help further, please send the file to info@nextfem.itDear Fausto,
thanks for your interest in NextFEM Designer. We don’t have any example or case-study on that right now, but we are developing further examples.
As we are specialized in structures, can you please further explain which kind of analysis, loads and elements you would use for that?Dear Yamano,
thanks for your interest in NextFEM Designer. “Rebar” button is not avaialble yet, it’ll be part of a paid module in the future. We will support the safety checking of RC structures soon!Dear jalogi2,
thanks for your interest in NextFEM Designer.
Regarding the import of a SAP2000 file, not all the feature in SAP2000 files are supported. Please see here for a list of supported items.I’ll warn you when ready; we’re goingo to implement stdBrick and Brick20N. Please send an email to info@nextfem.it telling if you’re using 32 or 64bit version; we’ll contact you via email for give you in advance the next release with this feature.
In the current version, the hex export for OpenSees is not supported. We’ll add this to our to-do list!
Dear user,
thanks for your interest in NextFEM Designer. Thanks also for your suggestion, but degenerating a brick element to a tetra geometry will produce a mal-formed mesh, and provokes huge convergence problems in non-elastic analyses. Hence, we cannot take this into consideration for a future version.
RegardsElasticBeamColumn can be imported but Elastic Section don’t, since it has nothing to do with that beam elements (the beam supports many sections). Anyway, I’ll put such features in our to do list.
EDIT: the OpenSees Elastic Section definitely cannot be read in Designer since the section shape and dimensions are not specified in the OS script. Moreover, there’s no associated material to it, since it has to be defined with E ang G.
EDIT2: material cannot be associated during reading, but in the next update such section will be imported as a rectangular equivalent. Thanks for your inquiry.