Different cross sections

Hi. I have another simple problem with karamba. I want to assign different cross sections to different beams in my model. For example I want my ten largest beams to have for e.g box (height 50 cm) and my next 10 largest to have box (h = 30 cm). How can i do it? With beam ideantifiers? How to use it?

Thanks

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Permalink Reply by Karamba3D on November 25, 2016 at 1:11am

Hi Krystian,

you can attach the cross sections either via beam identifier, beam-set identifier or element tag. Each element has a number - starting from zero - which can be displayed via ModelView/Structure Tags/Element tags. This indexes are the default element identifiers.

What you could do is sort the lines which represent your beam axes by length, split them into groups, attach an identifier to each group and use these identifiers to attach the cross sections.

Another but more complicated possibility would be to use regular expressions for specifying the beam-ids on the cross section component.

Best,

Clemens

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