It will be powerful if will be added, in the steel connection tool, the option to auto detect the identical joint present in the whole structure, or define from selection a region where the identical joint have to be applied. Once Robot find the group of "SAME STEEL CONNECTION PROPERTIES" the user can create the joint using the actual definition present in Robot. This definition will be applied to all the member of family, and all of it depend by only one "master definition", each changes on its parameters (for example bolt class or plate thickness) will be applied to all the joints of the family, avoiding the "time consuming" manual definition and calculation of each connection and, overall, the possible mistake in manual data input. After you have defined the steel connection family, the user can run the code checking of the family, Robot automatically calculate all the steel connection present in the family and plot the report of the top ratio one. This tool, added to an improvement of steel connection type (for exaple more beam to beam connection type) can be made easily, the calculation engine is the same of robot, the report generation is the same of robot, only the grouping engine tool have to be programmed, but can be partially copied from the spread footing dimensioning. Please give kudos to this idea. Greetings at all
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