Consteel 14 is a powerful analysis and design software for structural engineers. Watch our video how to get started with Consteel.
Contents
- Creating snapshots
- Save tables for documentation
- Create section and joint design documentation
- Create model documentation
- Insert snapshots and tables into the documentation
Consteel 14 is a powerful analysis and design software for structural engineers. Watch our video how to get started with Consteel.
Contents
- Build joint model based on the global model
- Bolted moment end-plate connection design
- Base plate connection design
- Apply connection stiffness in analysis
Consteel 14 is a powerful analysis and design software for structural engineers. Watch our video how to get started with Consteel.
Contents
- Set design parameters
- Perform cross section check
- Examine the design results in the Section Module
- Stability design according to the general method
- Member check – stability design for members
- Serviceability check
Consteel 14 is a powerful analysis and design software for structural engineers. Watch our video how to get started with Consteel.
Contents
- Set analysis parameters
- Perform first and second order analysis
- Perform buckling analysis
- Analysis results in graphics and in tables
- Results: deformation, internal forces, reactions
Consteel 14 is a powerful analysis and design software for structural engineers. Watch our video how to get started with Consteel.
Contents
- Define load groups and load cases
- Generate load combinations
- Define line loads globally
- Define partial line loads locally
Consteel 14 is a powerful analysis and design software for structural engineers. Watch our video how to get started with Consteel.
Contents
- Load sections
- Creating beams and columns
- Place supports
- Haunch definition
- Frame corner definition
Introducing Pangolin, the new ConSteel integration with Grasshopper
In quick summary
- What is it? – Pangolin is a plugin to integrate structural modelling and analysis into your parametric Grasshopper definitions
- When? – Pangolin has been released together with ConSteel 14 but it’s in continuous development
- Where? – Download Pangolin from food4rhino.com or the Yak package manager of Rhino
What to know about Pangolin?
Pangolin is a Consteel plugin to integrate structural modelling and analysis into your parametric Grasshopper definitions. Using Pangolin you can create complex steel structural model definitions that include details such as beam haunches, highly configurable cold-formed sections with stiffeners, surface loads with load transfer surfaces distributing them onto beams, load combinations made up of loads in load cases, and so on. The created model then can be saved out as a file for later usage or sent directly over to Consteel by the connection component, for analysis with Consteel’s unique calculations.
How to work with Pangolin?
- Create your parametric model with Grasshopper
- Transform the geometry to structural elements, assign supports and loads with Pangolin
- Send to Consteel 14 and run the analysis
Basic workflow
1. Create your Grasshopper definition of the structure’s geometry
2. Define the complete structural model based on the geometry with Pangolin’s component
3. Preview the generated structural model real-time right in Rhino
4. Send the generated structural model to ConSteel
5. Analyse the model utilizing the full power of ConSteel’s unique analysis and design calculations
6. Change the Grasshopper model’s input parameters as needed, go to step 4. and check the parametric model again in a matter of seconds.