Export SCAD Data
The export of the data from SCAD
is performed both in the formats of some design software (ABAQUS, STAAD,
...), and in the standard formats or in the formats which became “de facto”
standard (SDNF, IFC, ...). A brief description of the possibilities of
export is given below.
It should be noted, that for some formats (for example, GTC, IFC, SDNF,
…) it is possible to combine finite elements into structural members.
When the export operation is invoked, a dialog box appears where the user
has to select the options which define the rules for creating structural
members.
The following options are provided:
- creating structural members on the basis of those created in SCAD from rolled steel profiles;
- creating structural members by combining bars with the same rigidity
that lie on one line and are successively adjacent to each other;
- creating structural members by combining plate finite elements
with the same rigidity that lie in one plane, form a connected region,
contacting by common nodes;
- rigidities can be transformed into the parametric form for the
programs which do not provide the specification of the stiffness properties
of bars on the basis of the rolled steel profiles (otherwise, only
the values of the axial stiffness, bending stiffness etc. will be
transferred).