Hi civeng80,
I do not have the time to go into meshing right now but probably later in the week. While I remember it the Strucdes "Portal" program has a bug in that if you set up a shed with an open side (say a machinery shed) the program does not put ANY wind pressures on the remaining side...
Hi Civeng80,
I have done them occasionally as a mesh with grids at 300 centers. I allow the z value both ways. They have worked for retaining walls. I have done a few over the years and they have not failed on me (yet). There is also a concrete feature of the program suite. I have never...
Hi Civeng80
There are a couple of ways to get around the black background. One way is to change the colors in strucdes. There is a menu somewhere that allows you to do that.
What I do is clip the picture and copy it to the clipboard. Open microsoft PAINT and copy into paint. Press the right...
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The screen capture program that I use is "snip" in the accessories with "Microsoft Windows 7". You simply click on the thing, highlight the section of the screen that you want to capture and it appears in its own section of the screen and you tell it to "copy". You can then paste it...
I also use Multiframe. However I use it only when I am having trouble in Strucdes. I tend to use strucdes for everything. However I have found that when extending a shed out to the side it sometimes gives silly results. I also use multiframe for stuff that looks complicated, it has a better...
I have had no trouble getting computations approved with the software. I have submitted comps in all states & territiories of Australia with no problems. Although there have been changes to AS4100 over the years those changes do not effect the basic arithmetic of the code. Unfortunately the...
If you are connecting a truss to a column via a couple then there should also be a diagonal member. It is normal to consider this as a pinned joint because the members butting into the column transmit loads only along the axis of the member. The diagonal in the truss carries the shear force...
I have found that the tutorials helped a lot with Crumble.
However having said that it took me 2 years to really get used to it. I had problems running it under Windows XP. It worked for years then suddenly refused to work. I actually have windows 95 on a virtual computer but I have not...
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I have been using Strucdes 6.4 for about 15 years. The Strucdes company ceased trading about then but the software is still very useful, especially with the design of steel sheds. I am running it on Windows 7 via DosBox
There are some bugs in the software particularly with...
