The final design case calculates without iterations the DCIPM and/or DCIV of preliminarily designed members provided by users. Once the design procedure is completed, the Designed interface shown in Figure 19 will appear. This interface displays the section Frame Sections dimensions as well as the DCIPM and DCIV results, and provides an option for saving the design results in a file format. “.csv” Figure 19: Designed Frame Sections After the first design process is completed, the Frames” button in the Design of “Re-Design panel will be visible. If this button is pressed, the preliminary Frame Members for Selected MRI frame designs will be replaced by the new frame sections, new influence coefficients are calculated based on the new frame design, and the design process can be repeated again. 2.2 Building File Building input files can be prepared manually or using the Enter Building Information interface shown in Figure 4. Once all the required inputs in the Enter Building Information interface are specified, pressing the will create a file format Save Building Input File .csv building input file (Figure 20). All the required keywords (keywords begin with asterisk) except *UNITS (which defines the basic units used in the building input file) can be specified through interface. The default units used are ft, lb, and ft/s for length, force Enter Building Information
The final design case calculates without iterations the DCIPM and/or DCIV of preliminarily designed members provided by users. Once the design procedure is completed, the Designed Frame Sections interface shown in Figure 19 will appear. This interface displays the section dimensions as well as the DCIPM and DCIV results, and provides an option for saving the design results in a “.csv” file format. Figure 19: Designed Frame Sections After the first design process is completed, the “Re-Design Frames” button in the Design of Frame Members for Selected MRI panel will be visible. If this button is pressed, the preliminary frame designs will be replaced by the new frame sections, new influence coefficients are calculated based on the new frame design, and the design process can be repeated again. 2.2 Building File Building input files can be prepared manually or using the Enter Building Information interface shown in Figure 4. Once all the required inputs in the Enter Building Information interface are specified, pressing the Save Building Input File will create a .csv file format building input file (Figure 20). All the required keywords (keywords begin with asterisk) except *UNITS (which defines the basic units used in the building input file) can be specified through Enter Building Information interface. The default units used are ft, lb, and ft/s for length, force
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