The Grasshopper -
Tekla Structural Designer Live Link (GH-TSD) is enhanced with new Design and Reporting components to extend the Optioneering & Optimization workflows. For more information about the Grasshopper link see the TUA article
Grasshopper -Tekla Structural Designer Live Link (GH-TSD) -
To investigate different design configurations using the new components you can now:
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Generate several configurations of a structure, in different materials or with different geometry
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Run design for each configuration
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Determine if that configuration is a passing design (and the URs for each beam plus for example average/max/min UR)
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Measure the ‘cost’ of that configuration using material quantities
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Calculate the efficiency of each design configuration
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Find the best design configuration using automation
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Design - the following three new design components are added and are available from the Design group of the ribbon as shown below:
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Run design - allows the use to run design for the model (provided by the model component) with the following options; Subject - Steel, Concrete or All; Type - Gravity or Static (no RSA)
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Member & Wall Design Results:
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Member Design Results - reports Design Status & Utilization Ratio for a member or list of members. Results are available by whole member and for all spans/stacks within that member (see picture below illustrating this).
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Wall Design Results - reports the same data for Walls - again per whole wall or per wall panel.
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Reporting - two new components are added to report steel and concrete material quantities in a new “Review” ribbon Group. These can report in Grasshopper quantities from the Tekla Structural Designer materials list such as; number of objects, mass, surface area, volume and rebar mass (concrete models).