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Celt83

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Sep 4, 2007
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For anyone interested I have created a free open source group on GitHub.
The group name is: open-struct-engineer

If you would like to join or contribute code to the group let me know and we'll figure out how to add you to the group. Edit: it is a public group so anyone is able to join.

To be completely transparent I'm not sure how licensing works but it seems we'd be able to configure that based on repositories. I'd assume anyone contributing would be OK with things to be either the MIT or GPL Licenses', both of which have a liability waiver. In very limited terms MIT grants free unlimited use where GPL grants free use with the caveat that any portion of your code using the GPL'd code states so and is also made available.

One of the stipulations of being a free hosted group is that all of the repositories associated with the group are open source.

more info for GPL: more info for MIT:
If this sort of post is against the terms of the forums I apologize, but the intent is not malicious.

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Celt83, i'm looking at your strap program and i'm digging it. I made a spreadsheet for this a while back and I checked yours against mine, lo and behold the results are eerily similar (mine is based of of the SERM 9th edition example, i'm assuming by the look of it yours is too?). Funny how math works like that huh? Yours has a bit more functionality in terms of, well, a lot of stuff, but its interesting to see how similar our programs are in terms of input and output. I'd be willing to share my spreadsheet if you've got an email, or does eng-tips have a direct message, i cant find it? I'm kind of hesitant to post it here for some reason. Or i can post it to the git but i'm not too savvy with github and dont want to wreck your repo. My pride and joy is a spreadsheet that calcs drift loads on joists parallel to walls, tabulates loading, and gives joist girder design info. It even has a real time graphic of the joists and drift, oh boy! Saw you had something about drifts in the analysis repo but it doesnt seem to run, but by the look of the code i think it does something fairly similar to what my spreadsheet does. Figured you might be interested. Or anyone who does that calc might be interested for that matter.

Interesting points by IR, Trenno, and Agent: i've shared some of my spreadsheets with colleagues and the most common question I get is "where does it tell me if it works or not". Makes me shake my head. My response is usually "do you understand the concept of a strap footing (or whatever the context is)?", followed by "ok well youre going to have to pay attention to what the spreadsheet asks for and what the output is." Granted, that's kind of easy to say when i'm the one who has been staring at it for countless hours...

I'm watching the git, not sure how to get in the group though. Willing to share (spreadsheets) if you'll have me... I haven't dabbled in python since college.
 
dold:
Thanks for the feedback. For the drift program grab everything in that folder and run the one with GUI in it's name, it is a work in progress but you essentially define your roof perimeter+parapet heights and any interior structures and it will spit out the drift profiles to a dxf file, sample output attached.


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