This blog is finally starting to pay off, people are emailing with programming questions and problems. Making programming a little more accessible has always been the goal with the site. Programming can be intimidating to get started!

Foad Kondori emailed me awhile back trying to make a SAP2000 plugin to access frame reactions ...

C Sharp SAP2000

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For a long time I’ve wanted a quick way to spot check if structural beams in our analysis models like RAM or ETABs matched our Revit model. The gif above shows the beginning of bringing this idea to life. The tool ...

BIM Revit RAM C Sharp

A major upgrade to the section cutter tool, section cuts are now centered on the first and last location where they pass through constituent area geometry. An astute engineer in our office noticed that if the section cuts were not centered on the constituent area ...

ETABs C Sharp

Deltek is a powerful tool to track all things AEC related. At my level, I use it mostly for project management and tracking project budgets. 

You can get a lot of powerful reports out of it quickly, but at face value, it's just a sea ...

Python Deltek

I have been working through some complicated diaphragm designs with a newer engineer recently and have been learning a lot about transfer diaphragms. I realized I was falling into some pitfalls and it was good working through this with the newer engineer. One of the great things ...

ETABs Diaphragm Design
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  • retug on Diaphragm Slicer New and Improved -

    Hi Trenno, I just uploaded a new .dll file to github that has metric units included. Give it a whirl, let me know if you have any trouble on the install. I think it should be as easy as downloading the .dll file and adding the file path to the 

  • Trenno on Diaphragm Slicer New and Improved -

    How's the Metric version coming along? Keen to check it the tool. 

    Could you set it up so that the model is run within the initial steps of routine of the plugin? 

  • retug on Project Management with Deltek -

    Hi Tushar, I've used Seaborn as well, it's a good package. 

    I use Matplotlib for quick and dirty plotting, you just can't beat the amount of documentation and examples you can find out there for it.