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Yes, if you load a TCL file including such commands, you can launch it and use the program as a post-processor. However, the usage with Opensees fire has not been tested.
Hello,
First of all, thanks for your interest in NextFEM Designer.
Unfortunately we cannot provide videos, because we officially use another solver, which is built-in. You can find a manual here https://www.nextfem.it/it/opensees-pre-and-post-processor/If you can switch solver, use the one included in Designer and keep working with hinges.
If you like to maintain the use of Opensees, use separate elements for hinges.In the attached file, hinges are modelled inside the beam element (dispBeamColumn), so they cannot be displayed since they formed into the fiber element.
It depends on how the plastic hinges have been modelled. Please upload a simple file to let us check.
Dear User,
thanks for your interest in NextFEM Designer.
Regarding your model, you can use nearest element. Elements used are linear, the temperature displayed in “Area Temperature” results is the average of the element nodes.
If the mesh obtained is not satisfactory, you can decide the mesh size in Tools/Options/Solver tab/Mesh size for IfcWall.
The upcoming version 1.4 will have a new item inside Extract Data command specific for retrieving nodal temperatures.
regardsDear Stephen
firstly, thanks for your interest in NextFEM Designer.
Circular sections and pipes are treated inside the program as a series of linear segments. You can see all the points used from Edit/Sections/pick a circular section/Edit properties button/By points tab.
This is the reason why you found a little approximation. This can make a comparison more laborious (even with scientific notation?), but this will not affect quality of results.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