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Thanks for joining our community! This topic is about DECAsteel, an amazing new SketchUp extension currently in development.
Please use this topic to post feature requests and give us feedback about the development.
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Hi Larry - I think there is potential to add all of those items in the future. For the initial release, we hope to include handrails, guardrails, and joists. Maybe even cold formed steel as well.
Stairs and ladders will probably be added at some point but may not make it into the first release.
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Dale:
I hope I'm not out of line here, but below you will find a list of feature requests that would help us in our daily workflows. Our workflow consists of a back and forth between Risa3d and SU then finally either taking the final SU model and importing into cad to cut sections and develop plans or just redrawing everything from scratch. Its far from perfect but it's ours.
Feature requests:
1. A bi-directional link between Decasteel and Risa3d. Currently we must export from SU to dxf and then into Risa3d for analysis. No member mapping takes place during this it is strictly a stick frame model. Members must be assigned each time the process takes place. Any intelligence between the two applications would be an improvement.
2. When importing a Sketchup model into autocad the rounds or (k) in any view (sections, plans and details) shows facet lines. Cleaning these up is a nightmare of a job. The ability to turn the (k) on or off, or work with a simplified squared off section would be beneficial. This would also serve to speed up SketchUP on larger models while still working in SU.
3. A one way directional link of placing a DECAsteel model in Autocad, or its verticals, and that model staying updated with the SU/DECAsteel model. Somewhat covered in item 2 above, just automates the process.
4. An option to toggle beam gauge lines on or off as modeling aids.
Something to think about. If you would like to discuss this further please don't hesitate to reach out to me.
Thank you.
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Hi Larry - these are awesome requests. Thanks! I look forward to future collaboration with you. I am not very familiar with Risa3D. Is it mainly used for analysis? Does it have a lot of users? We would like to support bi-directional linking between the top 2-3 structural analysis applications but I need to do some more research to see if Risa would fall in that category.
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I have no idea to the ranking of where RISA would fall with other engineering packages. Top3, not sure. Top ten, probably. Its very common here in the States, but I'm not sure how widespread it is in other countries. I do know they provide a bi-directional link for Revit, for all other software they have a separate program that maps CIS/2 beam nomenclature to and from RISA. I've had some success using that program with SDS/2 and no success with regards to Advance Steel. Any connection information you've developed is lost using the mapping program. Its not ideal. I've provided links below to the RISA site.
https://risa.com/products/risa-3d
https://risa.com/products/linkutilities
I've provided a last link to our website so you can see who we are and what we do.
Please let me know if I can be of any help on this. We're very excited to see this program come to light.
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Hi Everyone and Hi Dale !!
Something new with DECAsteel ? we're still impatient to know more about it ... and to test it :D ...
- What about the link between DS and PB ?
- What about IFC ? and link with others software ?
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Have a nice Day !
Best regards
David
PS : Here's a link to a webinar (exchange between TEKLA and IDEA STATICA and SCIA Engineer)https://www.tekla.com/fr/a-propos/webinars/interop%C3%A9rabilit%C3%A9-entre-tekla-structures-scia-engineer-et-idea-statica-0I suppose there are others in English but if it can gives you ideas ;)
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Hi David! Sorry for the silence. We've been really focused on development of PlaceMaker Revit and QuantifyAR right now, but soon we will be getting back into DS development.
Regarding the link between DS and PB: DECAsteel objects such as columns, beams, bracing, etc. will be recognized by PB and editable using PB tools. However, PB objects will likely not be editable with DS. That being said, it might be possible to include a feature in DS to convert PB objects to DS objects (but likely not to be included in version 1)
IFC is something we want to support in DS. It is one of our main goals to offer exchangability with other software using the IFC format. Lots of work to be done here!
I have made a note to investigate whether we can make DS compatible with IDEA STATICA and SCIA. Thank you for the link!
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Hi Dale,
You could maybe be interested to look this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=91drCKYRyes
It's about the Link between Grasshopper and Tekla.
Best regards
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Hello Dale,
I recently looked at your software and I am really interested in your product. I am currently in the creation of a metal workshop and, being an engineer myself, I really want a way to easily draw and plan my jobs. If you're not ready yet for an official launch, I would be interested to buy a beta version and maybe help you spot any bugs or nice feature. I am open to discussion if you'd like.Thanks a lot,
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This is a very exciting plugin. I am one quarter away from my mechanical engineering degree and I use Sketchup for our CAD work in the manufacturing equine equipment. I have wanted something like this for a long time to use on our free standing structures. I would love to help anyway I can.
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I think if some user profiles are available for steel I think it could benefit our shelters, shedrows and barns that we build. Even though I will be a mechanical engineer I also do some structural analysis work with these structures. The idea of modeling in Sketchup and export to an analysis software is very exciting.
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