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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.
Dear Jiri,
I cannot see your attachment, please try to upload it again or send it to me via email using support@nextfem.it, I’ll be glad to help.Dear user,
I cannot find the attached picture, please provide it. Keep in mind that not all the features of an OpenSees model are imported by Designer, but only the ones listed in the users’ manual.
Mainly, you have to check if materials, sections and analysis data are correctly set and assigned.To run the model with OpenSees, please modify the solver from Tools/Options/Solvers.
Actually, we don’t have the possibility to introduce stiffness modifiers. Anyway, we do have pipe beam section, you can use that.
Dear parhyang,
with version 1.09, only the slow solver is present. Please be patient for the 1.10 which should be published at the end of this week. You’ll find a option for usign the fast DSS solver.
regardsThe command you refer to is Load Combinations, and it can be used to automatically generate the load combinations as per Eurocode 0. Please write to licensing@nextfem.it to get further information.