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  1. stillife

    Modelling Concrete Tower in SAP2000

    Hi all, I've managed to create a 3D solid model of the concrete tower I had talked about above. I am now wondering how I can bring this into SAP2000. I haven't dealt with solid models in SAP. It seems like the 3D solid from autocad dxf file can't be brought in as is. It seems like a solid mesh...
  2. stillife

    Modelling Concrete Tower in SAP2000

    Hi all, I've been using SAP2000 for frame analysis at school for a while. But for a new project I'm not sure if simplifying the structure to frames would be the best course of action. What I have is a cable-stayed bridge with a concrete tower that has a very unusual geometry (I have attached a...
  3. stillife

    Optional Parameters

    thanks for your answer. I'll follow that up. Still
  4. stillife

    Optional Parameters

    Hi all, I've got a quick question about function parameters. Is there a way to define a parameter as optional so that you don't get an error and then check to see if that parameter has been sent or not? The only way I can see this working is using an array as parameter and sending values...
  5. stillife

    Units for Excel outputs

    Thanks for the reply. I posted the complete file at the collaboratory. Hopefully someone can tell me what I'm doing wrong. Thanks.
  6. stillife

    Units for Excel outputs

    Hi all, I have two related questions: 1) I have just started using the excel component in Mathcad and I'm having a bit of a trouble getting the output variables to have units. I'm using Mathcad 11. I have a variable named secA which should be in mm. I can make it in units of mm by redefining...

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