FE model of circular hollow section bar joint with API

[Anonymous]

Hello,

I am trying to model a 3D welded joint of circular hollow sections with FE in Robot like the following:

I was hoping to do it through API to make it parametrical because I have several cases with different angles.

I have seen an example of Silo generation in the SDK folder, but it doesn't deal with intersection and union of objects. Do you have any examples of that?

Thanks!

V.

[rwemay]

In my experience, it may be difficult to do this fully parametrically - as you suggest I think creating the intersections will be difficult.

If you have a piece of software that will generate the geometry outside of Robot in SAT file format (for example Rhino) that you can drive parametrically (for example Grasshopper) you can use the API to generate the SAT geometry (or manually save it out).

I must say, though, that I have not fully exhausted the cylinder generation and intersection tools using the API.