Webinar N°6 Tips and Tricks in Robot
Webinar N°6 Tips and Tricks in Robot
Professional 8/07/2015
Tips and tricks in Robot
Rafał Gawęda
Artur Kosakowski
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Welcome to Autodesk Help Webinar Series!
Where do we announce?
www.autodesk.com/help-webinars
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What are « Webinars » and how they are
intended to work
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Topics covered in this “Webinar” and what we
plan for the next one:
This Webinar :
Known and „unknown” options while working with
Robot Structural Analysis
Next Webinar :
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Restoring default Robot settings
Clear contents of or rename Robot cfgusr folder
c:\Users\%username%\AppData\Roaming\Autodesk\Autodesk
Robot Structural Analysis Professional 2016\CfgUsr
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RTD file size
1 /results are by default saved together with the model
2/ using "Save" instead of "Save as" with new name results in less efficient save of
compound file keeping all data: modifications are "added" in fast way thus increasing
the size of file. Using "Save as" with new name would result in smaller file in such case
3/ size of file can be also increased by screen captures, RC design components, steel
connections etc
The typical way of reducing the size of file is using "Save as" with new name and
selecting RTD without results.
Moreover such file without results can be very efficiently compressed to ZIP (results are
not compressing so efficiently).
In case of many modification and delete commands made in the model they may also
result in extending the size of RTD file. In such case file can be compacted by opening it
in repair mode ‐ when "Repair Mode" is active in Open window.
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Repair Mode
Open in "Repair Mode" should be used in case of damaged RTD
or if its size is abnormally big because of many edit/delete
operations and discontinuous internal structure.
When using this type of open it is important to remember/know about some topics to
avoid "damaging" instead of "correcting":
1/ The first point is that opening in "Repair Mode" removes from the model its Job
Preferences and its properties (like the information in which version it was created). The
file with "(Recovered)" in its name, created by default (without any Save or Save As
command) after opening in "Repair Mode" has no such information inside.
Also steel connections, screen captures etc can be removed.
2/ That is why such file is opened with default job preferences which can be completely
different than its original job preferences ‐ different units, codes, analysis settings,
....!!! After using Save or Save As command these "new" job preferences are saved
inside the file replacing the original ones.
3/ When sending RTD file created in step 1/ and opening it on another machine it will
"use" the default job preferences of this another machine because it has no job
preferences inside. So in practice opening the same *(Recovered).RTD file on 5 different
machines with different default job preferences it is possible to obtain 5 different sets of
codes active (and different from the original ones).
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Repair Mode
The steps to perform to avoid such effects when using „Repair Mode” are as follows:
Step a/ results in saving job preferences of the original RTD file as default job
preferences. That is why when opening this RTD in "Repair Mode" these job preferences
will be still used. In step 3/ these job preferences will be saved back inside the RTD.
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Opening structure in different formats
(model import)
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Saving structure in different formats
(model export)
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Autocad dwg files import
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Autocad dwg files import
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Autocad dwg files import
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Creating objects by node numbers
Gamma angle – Position
Gamma angle – Node
Bars lengthening
Merging bars
Drag and drop
Contour, panel edges dividing
Merging panels edges
removing characteristic points from edges)
Changing cladding onto panel
Apply panel thickness to cladding
Apply Curtain Wall calculation model to panel
Selection by dialog window
How to select superbars
Selection by Structural Axes
Structure modification by Structural Axes
oggling between objects for selection
sing TAB key
Previous selection
Right hand mouse click + „Previous Selection”
when you want to reselect objects that were part of you previous selection list).
Table filtering
Menu View \ Tables
Right hand mouse click on screen and select Tables
Cross selection on tables Edit tab
orces Table, Stress Table
results in diagram characteristic points
Copying data from \ to Robot tables
nline \ in-field calculations
press „=” after expression)
Available methematical functions (syntax):
Graphical modification of loads
Resizing symbols on display
Moving diagrams labels Labels
Modification
Exact mesh as in ACAD
Meshing options
NOTE: greyed out field settings are important also
Modification of extruded, revolved panels
How to set Auxiliary property for cases
which have no such option in Parameters
How to quickly delete case list
or change the analysis type of case list
User automatic load combinations
• Start from any existing in Robot code combination which is the
closest to your country regulation and modify it according to your
needs (create subnatures if needed ; adjust factors ; select \ set
formulas)
• Hint: all regulation files are text files so you can also edit them in
notepad and have extension rgl.
• Default location of them :
c:\Users\All Users\Autodesk\Structural\Common Data\2016\Rgl
• It is recommended to save user rgl file in such folder:
c:\Users\%username%\AppData\Roaming\Autodesk\Autodesk
Robot Structural Analysis Professional 2016\CfgUsr
User automatic load combinations
Stress Analysis Structure – real model
cale
Stress Analysis Structure – real model
cale
Printout edition
Steel design- groups for single members
Steel Design – results table export
and then screen capture of this table will be available in
Printout Composition
Adding new reinforcement bar diameter
r new steel grade:
To add new reinforcement bar grade or diameter select and edit
reinforcement bar database
Adding new wire fabrics:
In the same way it is possible to add or edit the list of wire fabrics
(meshes)
The description tabs provide information about each of the columns
Useful addins for Robot
ttp://forums.autodesk.com/t5/robot‐structural‐analysis/useful‐addins‐for‐
obot‐api/td‐p/3899448
ttp://knowledge.autodesk.com
roubleshooting Articles – this is a new page focused around your most
ommon troubleshooting problems:
ttp://knowledge.autodesk.com/support/robot‐structural‐analysis‐
roducts/troubleshooting#?sort=score
Questions ?
may not be able to answer all questions during the webinar. Please post them on the
Next webinar session on 16/09/2015 for the following topic :
Introduction to seismic and spectral analysis