Steel Connection Design and Check

FAQ: Receiving

  • How do I know if the design went well?
    • You receive an email explaining the number of tokens charged and with a list of all the design results (ok or not) for all the nodes that have been requested. Something like this (here 1,400 nodes had been asked, and our credit is clearly unlimited):
      • The total cost of the service referred to by this email is 2,780.00 tokens.
      • The node: HUGETOS.AA has been designed and checked. The credit (+) or debt (-) is presently 9,988,932.00 tokens. Now it can be downloaded from the server. Monday, February 26, 2024, 20, 26, 46
      • The node: HUGETOS.AB has been designed and checked. The credit (+) or debt (-) is presently 9,988,926.00 tokens. Now it can be downloaded from the server. Monday, February 26, 2024, 20, 27, 25
      • The node: HUGETOS.AC has been designed and checked. The credit (+) or debt (-) is presently 9,988,923.00 tokens. Now it can be downloaded from the server. Monday, February 26, 2024, 20, 27, 35
      • The node: HUGETOS.AD has been designed and checked. The credit (+) or debt (-) is presently 9,988,920.00 tokens. Now it can be downloaded from the server. Monday, February 26, 2024, 20, 27, 45
      • The node: HUGETOS.AE has been designed and checked. The credit (+) or debt (-) is presently 9,988,916.00 tokens. Now it can be downloaded from the server. Monday, February 26, 2024, 20, 28, 03
      • The node: HUGETOS.AF has not been properly designed. Monday, February 26, 2024, 20, 28, 41
      • The node: HUGETOS.AG has been designed and checked. The credit (+) or debt (-) is presently 9,988,911.00 tokens. Now it can be downloaded from the server. Monday, February 26, 2024, 20, 31, 42
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  • How can I receive the designed nodes?
    • It is very easy, clearly you must have an active Internet connection.
    • 1: you open the model and set jnode view.
    • 2: you select the nodes that you wish to download from the service. If the model has been saved with the nodes sent already (necessarily) selected, you have to do nothing, as they are already selected. If a node is selected but there is no-design or it is not empty nothing happens to it.
    • 3: you execute the command File-Download from Service. The empty nodes, selected, for which a design is available on the server, will be populated with the design.
    • 4: once the command is finished, the graphic symbols of the selected jnodes that have been “filled” will change, as the squares with the jnode mark (“AA”, “AB”, …) will have the border thickened.
    • 5: choosing anyone of the designed nodes, and therefore selecting only that jnode, and switching to the Renode view, you can see that:
      • The node is populated by plates, welds, bolts, and all is needed to solve the node.
      • The checks, and the check-results are available with the definition of all the variables and the formulae used, and with the false-colours maps with the utilisations.
      • You can open both the listing (ASCII file with extension .out) and the report (file PDF).
      • The geometry of the node completed can be exported in different formats (DXF, STL, OBJ et cetera).