Connection With SAP2000 and Orthotropic Materials

Hello All,

I am new to Geometry Gym and honestly not too familiar with how it works. I was searching around online and can't seem to find any kind of tutorial on its use in conjunction with SAP. I'm analyzing small frame structures, so if anyone could link me to or even create a small tutorial that might help, that'd be great. I just need to know the general process of going from a small model of lines to a structure to be analyzed with SAP.

Additionally, due to the small nature of what I work with, my primary building material thus far has been wood, and I can't seem to find a way to implement orthotropic materials. Can anyone shed light on this? I know how to do it within SAP itself but it seems like you create the materials within Grasshopper before the output? Is this correct?

Matt

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Permalink Reply by Jcu on March 18, 2015 at 4:01am

Hi all, I am new to Geometry Gym and not too familiar with how it works, but I usually work on Grasshopper and Sap2000.

I studied console.gh file by Rok, but I have a problem with the component "ggSAPcreatesectionProp" ( and I have problems like this also when I work on other files)...where is the problem?

I tried also to use the component ggSAPcreateframeProp, but the problem is always the same.

Cheers,

Giulia

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Permalink Reply by Jon Mirtschin on March 18, 2015 at 3:34pm

Hi Giulia,

Thanks for the post. I have some components in the Bullant Plugin to generate standard shape profiles, it's best to use them than curve geometry in Grasshopper.

Try the attached, it should work better. I'll see if I can improve the warning message.

Cheers,

Jon

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