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Diaphragm Slicer - ETABs API

The Tool

One feature that I like to use in ETABs is the section cut tool, but it is quite cumbersome to utilize in practice:

Notice how you have to enter (4) valid points to define a section cut... a time consuming process. I love to …

Time Histories to Response Spectrums

I have inherited an awesome project through the most unfortunate circumstances, the loss of a great engineer moving onto bigger and brighter pastures.

The project is going to be an ASCE 41 non-linear dynamic analysis and has had geotech engineers involved in picking out ground motion that represent similar ground motions that the …

Minimum Joist Bearing Lengths - Revit and Dynamo

A co-worker of mine asked if I could find a way to check min. joist bearing lengths after being burned on a recent project where they had a few beams that worked for strength and deflection, but did not match SJI's minimum flange dimensions for bearing.

ETABs API - More Examples (Database Tables)

Sparked by a reddit inquiry, I have added an example on my github to access the database table results using the ETABs API. The python code can be found on github.

The Code

The example code works to access the joint reaction database table results from ETABs v20.

Website Updates

I made a few updates to the site, mostly focusing on updating the home page sidebar to have some actual information. The old side bar was just place holder text from the tutorial I found, but the new side bar is populated with the last (3) comments made on the …

Project Management with Deltek

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 …