Revision 49 posted to RAM | STAAD Wiki by Ranjana Shinde on 5/2/2022 10:48:54 AM
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| Product(s): | STAAD Advanced Concrete Design | |
| Version(s): | Connect Edition | |
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| Area: | Concrete Design | |
| Subarea: | General | |
| Original Author: | Bentley Technical Support Group | |
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- [[Importing gridlines from AutoCAD.]]
- [[Can all design calculation reports exported in Excel format?]]
- [[Settings to freeze drawing style.]]
- [[Unable to read analysis data]]
- [[Load Combinations considered for regular and irregular buildings]]
- [[Data exported from Etabs in FPS(foot-pound-second) reflects in RCDC as MKS(meter-kilogram-second).]]
- [[Is the Vertical axis of STAAD and RCDC Same.]]
- [[How to change safety factor for design codes in RCDC?]]
- [[Defining concrete grade as 27 N/sqmm in RCDC for IS code design.]]
- [[To design a building for repeat load cases from STAAD in RCDC.]]
- [[Explanation of live load reduction as per Table-10 of IS 1893-2016 in RCDC.]]
- [[RCDC unable to read load combinations if added in analysis file .]]
- [[Ductile detailing of beams columns without increasing cross section.]]
- [[Shear calculations in column, beam, footing the Maximum stress in reinforcement is limited to 415 N/sqmm.]]
14. RCDC create "Text Schedule" with unrecognizable characters. Kindly suggest to get the text schedule in English Language
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Answer: The issue might be because of language set in the system. please refer below snap to set language,
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15.RCDC is not able to read STAAD file and closes.
We have got RCDC connect edition V9 update 3 - 9.3.0.25 and STAAD pro connect edition V22 Update 4 -22.4.0.40. Since, yesterday RCDC is not able to read STAAD file and closes on its own. Kindly help us find a solution to this issue
Ans:
There are overlapping members exists in STAAD file. refer below snap,
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Please remove these overlapping members and try to read in RCDC. if you read footing in RCDC, it doesn't show any error. it has identified two members at same location. it will design two footing at same location for members and forces available from analysis. Refer below snap,
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please remove these overlapping members as it is not expected to model overlapping members.
16.Unable to import the Etabs 2019 Model?
The Microsoft Database File (mdb or accdb) created from ETABS 2019 has a few changes in the table format as compared to ETABS 2018.
Currently RCDC is not reading the data from the modified table format of accdb file created from ETABS 2019. created from EtABS 2019.
There is change in the table for in the 'Wall Object Connectivity' table in the mdb (accdb) file as follows. By making a small modification in "Wall Object Connectivity table", the mdb file will be successfully imported in RCDC.
For easily modifying the data, one can copy the data in excel, make changes over in the excel itself and paste the data back to mdb.
Once the data from "Wall Object Connectivity" is copied to excel below formula can be used to compile all the 4 unique points mentioned in 4 separate columns under one single column as per requirement of RCDC to import mdb from ETABS 2019.
18. How to set style manager settings in RCDC?
This link provide a video demonstrating the steps. In the latest version of RCDC (Version 11 onwards) this option can be found in the landing page as shown below.
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19. How to set additional grid lines in RCDC?
RCDC automatically detects all the grids along column lines when we import the analysis model. But, after that if we need some additional grids, we can add them easily. To add new grids we should go to Modify > Grid Lines and right click on the new window to add grids at different locations.
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We can easily add, delete or hide/unhide grids from this settings. It has also an option to include inclined grid using the inclined option.
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20. RCDC designs different elements in different modules like Beam, column, slab etc. We need to provide same member number, sizes, grids, group names across all the modules to represent uniformity in the output. How to import same grid data, column/beam marking and sizes in all design modules in RCDC for a structure?
RCDC provides an easy option to import data in a module from different other modules. You can go to File and there you will find some options to import data depending on modules. An example for slab is shown below. For slab module we can import beam and column data.
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For other modules also we will get similar options to import.
Tags: E-tabs, footing, shear wall not detected, Column, RCDC, beam, Staad File, Load Cases, RCDC Queries, pile cap
