Adding beam restraints/internal bracings

[enda.farrell1]

Hi,

It would be very beneficial to make the input and display of beam restraints more user friendly as the current method is not straight forward. This is the only reason I avoid using Robot for Portal Frame design.

I have attached a pdf screenshot from another program which is the easiest I have come across to input beam restraints. It also shows an overall structure view of the restraints so it is easy to see if there is a restraint out of place. I find it can be easy to get member restraints backwards or upside down without this view. Just a tick box in display to show restraints would be fine.

Setting restraint points is much quicker because its done from one dialog box for all restraints. This may be something which could be developed in the short term with excel using macros and linked to Robot by creating a new Member Type? 

Please see http://forums.autodesk.com/t5/Robot-Structural-Analysis/Adding-beam-restraints-internal-bracings/m-p... for initial discussion on the above.

Thanks

Enda