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    tony.ridley
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    Material Properties (API)

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    02-12-2013 01:03 AM

    Hi,

     

    Is there any way to get tabulated data for all of the materials in the Robot database?  I searched in the program files / Robot 2013 but can't find it easily.  

     

    Thanks,

    Tony

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    Re: Material Properites

    02-12-2013 01:08 AM in reply to: tony.ridley

    Only as additional columns in Bars, Panels ro Quantity Survey tables

     

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    Re: Material Properites

    02-12-2013 01:11 AM in reply to: RG_Adsk

    Or something for you :-) -> small API in Excell geting materials \ material data in the way you want.



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    Re: Material Properites

    02-12-2013 02:04 AM in reply to: RG_Adsk

    hahah ok thanks :smileyhappy:

     

    So, without API, if a colleague wants to print a list of material properties for example - all concrete types - then he would have to draw many bars, then assign each one a material?  Then use the table you describe?

     

    not a atext file somewhere here:

    C:\Program Files\Autodesk\Autodesk Robot Structural Analysis Professional 2013

     

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    Re: Material Properties (API)

    02-12-2013 02:20 AM in reply to: RG_Adsk

    RG_Adsk wrote:

    Or something for you :-) -> small API in Excell geting materials \ material data in the way you want.


    Example attached (materials used in model)



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    Re: Material Properites

    02-12-2013 02:25 AM in reply to: tony.ridley
     

    not a atext file somewhere here:

    C:\Program Files\Autodesk\Autodesk Robot Structural Analysis Professional 2013

     

    XML file = kind of text file, material databases names  : rmat*.xml

     

     

    "c:\ProgramData\Autodesk\Structural\Common Data\2013\Data\Mate" 

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    user section databases, material databases, etc.

     

    Win 7 32- or 64-bit RSAPro:
    C:\Users\username\AppData\Roaming\Autodesk\Structural\Common Data\2013\

     

     



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    Re: Material Properites

    02-12-2013 02:37 AM in reply to: RG_Adsk

    Hint below

     

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    Re: Material Properites

    02-12-2013 06:57 AM in reply to: RG_Adsk

    API, API, API...

    Gift for You attached - whole database to Excel.

     

    If you want only concrete materials  :

     

    replace

     

    Set RNA = RobApp.Project.Preferences.Materials.GetAll

    by

     

    Set RNA = RobApp.Project.Preferences.Materials.Get(I_MT_CONCRETE)

     

     

     



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    Re: Material Properites

    02-12-2013 02:45 PM in reply to: RG_Adsk

    Rafal,

    You are THE man.

     

    Cheers,

    Tony

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