We have been asked to review the wall build-ups on a job, and the contractor would like to minimise the thickness of the deflection head / firestopping on top of the partition walls.
Not a request I have come across before, but I suppose in these BIM-crazy days, everyone expects that the information is already in the model and can be extracted fairly painlessly.
Q: Is there a way to extract the slab deflections along a user defined line in STAAD? Seems like most structural packages these days can generate a 'heat map' of the slab deflections. I suppose it would just be a question of extracting the deflection values that intersect the wall line in plan, and label them at their corresponding positions along the line, at a specified interval. The largest deflection would be in bold or colour-coded.
The next step would be to automatically extract the wall positions generated say in Aecosim Building Designer, convert them into lines for extracting the deflection info, as described above.
Not sure what the future plans are for STAAD's Physical Modeler or ISM. but this info would be great to have back in ABD in a format that can be referenced.
Does OpenSTAAD macros understand Aecosim's DataGroup System or Mstn CE's Items?
Lots of engineers have 'digital transformation' programmes internally, I suppose we will see a lot more 'hackathon' type requests of the structural engineers by the contractors.