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Custom Shape Section imported from Advance Steel

crasmussenGKDV6 — Wed, 10 May 2017 17:18:07 GMT

I have a custom shape I designed into a user defined beam in Advance Steel 2017. I am trying to get that shape into Robot 2017 so i can analyze it for dead loads and live loads. How do i either import the shape into robot or design it in robot so I can analyze it. I have attached pictures of the shape cross section and as a beam. It is made out of aluminum.

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Re: Custom Shape Section imported from Advance Steel

Rafacascudo — Wed, 10 May 2017 17:18:35 GMT

You will have to build it on tools/section definition , but I'm afraid you will not be able to code check this kind of section

Re: Custom Shape Section imported from Advance Steel

Artur.Kosakowski — Wed, 10 May 2017 17:18:57 GMT

As Rafael suggested you should create a similar section in Robot Section Builder tool and save it in the user section database first. Then you should add it to the Section dialog and select it at the mapping stage while importing AS model to RSA (see the third point on the slide from the 11th Robot webinar below):

As again Rafael correctly pointed out the steel design module may not be able to accurately design section like this but you may actually just need to check if level of stress is below the limit. If so, you may try to use the stress analysis module of Robot instead (you may want to check this for the cross section first before running it for the whole beam).

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