Structural Adapters

Intro

This page gives examples and outlines the general common behaviour of the adapters communicating with structural software packages. To get an general introduction to how the adapters are working, please see this page.

If you plan on creating a new adapter to a software not yet supported by any of the current adapters in the organisation, please refer to this page for guidance of how to get started.

For information regarding software specific adapter features, known issues and object relation tables, please see the toolkit wikis:

• Robot_Toolkit wiki
• GSA_Toolkit wiki
• Etabs_Toolkit wiki
• Lusas_Toolkit wiki

Pushing and pulling elements

Please see the samples for examples of how to push elements to a software using the adapters.

Pushing and pulling loads

The objects assigned to the loads need to have been in the software. The reason for this is that the objects need to have been tagged with a CustomData representing their identifier in the software. To achieve this you can

1. First push all the elements, then in a separate step pull them out again and sort out which elements that are applicable to be loaded. (Recomended workflow)
2. Use the objects output of the PushComponent. That adapter will have made sure that all objects coming out from the adapter will have been assigned with the correct tags.

Please see the samples for examples of how to push elements to a software using the adapters.

Pulling results

Examples to be inserted