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Prismatic / General Section Properties

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Bill2001

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Dear friends,
Would you please clarify following?

1) what's the major differnce between Prismatic/General Section Properties i STAAD.Pro when you make shapes in the Section Wizard program?
2) Say you generate a shape in the Section Wizard program and then export it into STAAD, when you make a beam in STAAD GUI, it would be located at CG or at shear center?

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Bill
 
I believe the General Section Properties is a lot more flexible in the type of shapes you can use. You can draw whatever shape you want. I haven't really used the Prismatic sections too much, but I believe you only have certain shapes that you can pick from.
 
Also, unless they changed it for 2007, it can code check a general section but not a prismatic section.
 
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