Create templates using the API

[Jelle.Visser]

I'm having trouble with predefined templates in RSA. All the predefined member types, supports and releases just randomly disappear, and others appear. So to combat this, I was hoping I might be able to do this in the API. However, looking through the documentation I can see how to create members, but not how to just create member types, and I would also need to define things in the service menu, and define them as OCBF. We do not want to have to create this anew every time we create a new file.

The following things should be defined in the newly created files through the API:

• Member types (Name, buckling coeficcient, seismic analysis parameters, service menu)
• Releases
• Supports
• Used Codes (ANSI/ASCE or EC)
• Seismic variables (ag or SS/S1 and ground type)
• Load cases
• Combinations
• Load to mass conversion

The easiest would probably to do this in VB.NET, since all our other RSA code is in VB, however, C# would be fine too, I wouldn't mind an excuse to transition our codebase to C#. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Searching through the documentation hasn't yielded anything usefull yet, I can find parts about creating loadcases, but most bullet points are still up in the air.

[Stephane.kapetanovic]

hi @Jelle.Visser 

https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/robot-structural-analysis-forum/api-tutorial/td-p/3939601

https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/robot-structural-analysis-forum/useful-addins-for-robot-api/td-p/3899...

Best regards

[Jelle.Visser]

Hi @Stephane.kapetanovic,

I've already looked through the API documentation in the SDK directory. And I've looked through both these pages as well. I cannot find what I'm looking for. I want to add member types in this menu:

There I want to edit Buckling parameters, the service menu and seismic analysis parameters:

And that's just the member types. If it is available in the documentation, could you point me in a more specific direction?

Cheers

[Stephane.kapetanovic · Accepted solution]

hi @Jelle.Visser 

Steel design - CodeParams, [EC8 & Python code], [API] Define Membertype Adjoin Params, [API] Steel Code Params Buckling Diagram

Best regards