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i am on window 8.1 works perfectly fine with me !

you made me think : does the section being tapered or not affect the connections ? i mean taper is along the length and the connection design is to done with forces at the connection point and taking into consideration the section value at that very point. how does Taper or no taper affect...

Consider a 10 story building, and you need to design a steel column, now consider one column line. if you select 10 columns(members) in line and convert them to one physical member and design; the program will design using the maximum values on the most critical section and then assign it to...

That value cannot be changed !

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When Required ? its a matter of experience and the engineer's choice. most of the engineers would do it to make the building regular from irregular, and when i say irregular i am referring the Definition of Irregular building defined in UBC or IBC ( i think there is a table for irregularities...

So i think it is safe to say that the example it incorrect. The university people should be notified.

all in all here the screenshot of the program being written the GUI is pretty much ready for my script.(attached screenshot) it is interactive, it will take the values from the input panel (loading to be added) and as the values change in the input panel the diagram will change accordingly...

@RF if you want to learn python the best option is to learn from www.coursera.org. Rice university offers a engaging course with weekly mini projects and quizes. You can learn it free but if you pay 50USD then you get a university certificate on successful completion. it is two months long and...

@rb, well eventually i would move to stiffness matrix, but i will have to open my university notes after 15 years :) But the question is how can online lecture of a prestigious university be wrong, and if it is wrong i want to write an email to the university to correct this as this will mislead...

i don't think i have wrong values. you can quickly model and review the example (example 7) the one with pinned connections

jake have you tried pygal ? its amazing and the plots are dynamic, created in svg format http://pygal.org/chart_types/#idid3

With python : Tkinter for the GUI input and output numpy for solving equations and linear algebra. matplotlip for graphing i have been using a lot of frame analysis packages but i have started to feel much more comfortable with making my own scripts. it gives me flexibility and confidence. I...

For some time now i am involved mostly in design and manufacture of Pre-engineered buildings. I usually use a simple 2D frame analysis tool to get moments and then design the frame. Have been doing the same thing over and over again for last 12 years. recently i decided to code(Python) my own...