Hi. I am working with SAP2000, and i was triying to obtain a graphic of the bending moment distribution for a certain structure under certain loads condition. My wish is to obtain it with VBA and the OAPI interface. Does anybody know how i could do it. I already consulted the OAPI help, and i...
hi. i am doing the analisis of the superstructure of a bridge and i have to check that the internal forces in the deck due to a certain moving vehicle are at least ten per cent inferior respect at the internal forces due to the design vehicle. i have come to the conclusion that i could define a...
I found the solution. I had problems because there was some incompatibility between the CSI software, and Excel. I solved it. in a virtual machine, i have windows xp. There, i installed the 32 bit version of CSIBridge, and that way, I have available the csiBridgeApi.dll. That dll implements all...
Hi. I am triying to automate things with CSI bridge and the OAPI, and vba in excel
However i can not reference the required dll for the OAPI to work. I triying to load the CSiBridge18.dll, but excel does not let me do it.
I think that is the correct dll, but i am not totally sure. Does anybody...
hi. This day I have come to the conclusion that there seems to be a lot of routiones already programmed in Fortran for structural design. However, most ofthe routines are old and difficult to find. I would like to know if there is some site on the internet or book where i could find fortran...
hi. i am working with sap2000, and i am teiying to develop and application for the automatic calculation of the reinforcements requiremnst of a concrete structure. i already know how to obtain the envelope of different load cases, but i need to be able to obtain the concomitant forces in a given...
I have already seen that there are a few examples in various languages. However, i can't find the documentation for programming in c, visual studio, phyton, etc....I seem to me that VBA is the only language that has documentation available. After much tought, I have come to the conclusion that...
Hi. Given the fact that there are a lot of commands in the vBA OAPI environment that are not accesible, i was wondering if the OAPI could be accessed with Python or with C. In such case, where coud i find the manuals for working with the oAPI in that languages (I already have the manual for VBA...
Hi. I can agree with you that VBA is not the fastest language in the world, but it allows the develepor to work with most of the functinality of compatible applications. That way, i can perform a lot of calculations without the need to be in front of the computer. For example, an engineer can...
Hi. I am an engineer interested in VBA. In the past, I have worked with the VBA language, and i have written little applications with it in Excel, Autocad, Access and SAP2000. Given the fact that there are a lot of software that can be automated with VBA, i was wondering is someone knew where i...
thanks for your reply. I already know hot to importa and export with the user interface. The thing is, I would like to import and export with code written in Visual Basic for Applications (VBA). SAP2000 supports this lenguage, with OAPI. The OAPI manual explains several commands, but the...
Hello. I need to export and import data from a SAP2000 model to Excel or to a sap.mdb file. I consulted the OAPI manual but did not find anything. Does anybody know how I could the import export commands with OAPI?
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Hi. Does anybody know how to work with the batch file commands of the sap2000, via the OAPI. I have consulted the oapi manual, and it does not have any reference to it.
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hi. finally i did what i wanted. but i have come to a new problem. the oapi does not seem to have a commend to import / export *mdb or *xls files, like the commad you have in the user interface in the sap2000. Does anybody know how to import-export via VBA in SAP 2000? If you want my code...
Hi. After thinking about it for a while, i think that i have found a way to define the path and the vehicles. First, we must keep in mindo that sap storesnthe all the data of the model in a databases, with the extensión sdb. Sap has an import export feature that allows the user to incorporate...
Hi. This is my first message here. I am triying to perform some calculations with moving loads with the SAP2000 v15 software. My idea was to use the OAPI, but, after reading the OAPI help document, and websurfing the forum,,I have come to the conclusion that there a lot of commans that are not...
