Importing panels from Rhino/Grasshoper to Robot

[Anonymous]

Hi,

I'm having some trouble importing some rectangular surfaces from Rhino into Robot. I've exported them as .SAT files and they enter Robot as geometric objects ok, however I am then unable to convert them to panels with any thickness or calculation model settings. I've attached a screenshot of the problem I'm having

Thanks,

Matt

[Artur.Kosakowski]

Matt,

As far as I can see the selected object is actually a panel (see the Inspector). Could you send the rtd file with one of such objects?

[altiscad]

So, how you fixed the problem with importing? The problem is that in Inspector panels have no thickness and it cannot be defined.

[Artur.Kosakowski]

Could you send a sample rtd file with such object?

[altiscad]

Hi Artur!

I imported the SAT file. Then I defined plates using Thickness tool, not Panels tool. I don't want to use Panels because it may be very time consuming for large structures to hunt each contur.

If you look in tables, all plates seems to be OK. Only in Inspector are wrong and o course in the results.

Best Regards,

Gabi

[Artur.Kosakowski]

Gabi,

The thickness is correctly assigned to panels which can be checked in the Panels table. The situation is that for ACIS panels that intersect in many places some of surface elements do not have assigned thickness at the stage of model generation. The solution is to select all surface elements that belong to a panel for which no material error is displayed and then create a new one from such list.

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[altiscad]

Hi Artur!

In my case is very hard to do this by hand. On each project I have hudred of such panels. I cannot select all and asign one time new panels. I tried to write a code to asign by API a new panel based on a selection of such geometry. The problem is that the geometry consists on edges only (no segments, no point etc). Do you see any other solution?

Here http://forums.autodesk.com/t5/Autodesk-Robot-Structural/Creation-of-Panel-with-FE-list-using-API/m-p... I asked for an example of code that might be helpful...

Thank you.

Gabi

[Artur.Kosakowski]

At the moment I don't have any better solution but we are working on this.

[Artur.Kosakowski]

Improved in SP1 for Robot 2014.

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