Tendon Manager

Tendon Manager

Command	SOF_PT_TENDON_MANAGER
Tooltip	Opens a table with all tendons in the drawing. Slab tendons are not considered.

This opens a two-part dialog box. The upper section provides a graphical overview of the system and the defined tendons. The lower section contains a table listing all the defined tendons, where you can modify the properties of multiple tendons simultaneously.

Tendon or tendon geometries marked in the table are highlighted in the graphical overview.

Graphical part

Use the small cross-section icon at the top left to activate a detailed view of the cross section. This will display an axis selection option, a slider with the axis station values, and a 2D view of the cross section.

Tabular part

The tabular part is divided into three tabs:

• Summary

  The Summary tab provides an overview in a tree structure. It begins with the reference element, followed by the tendon geometry, and finally, a list of the tendons.

• Geometry

  The Geometry tab contains a list of all defined tendon geometries. The left part is not editable and includes information about the reference element and the type of geometry.

• Tendon

  The Tendon tab lists all defined tendons. The Geometry column contains information about the reference element and the tendon geometry.

The header of the geometry and tendon tab contains additional icons for managing the table elements:

Icon	Tendon Geometry	Tendon	Description
			Opens a dialog to sort and filter the table.
			Clones all selected tendon geometries and all assigned tendon elements with an offset. Cloned elements have the same properties as the original elements. The properties of the tendon elements can then be changed independently of the original element. The properties of the tendon geometries cannot be edited. They remain linked to the properties of the original geometry.
			Copies the selected tendon geometries and all assigned tendon elements with an offset. Copied elements have the same properties as the original elements. They also inherit the axis reference. All properties of the tendon geometries and tendon elements (except the axis reference) can then be modified independently of the original element.
			Copies the selected tendon geometries and all assigned tendon elements to another axis. Copied elements have the same properties as the original elements. The U and V values ​​are retained, but now refer to a newly specified axis. The properties (except for the axis reference) can then be changed independently of the original element.
			Delets the marked elements.

Copy / Clone Dialog

With the radio buttons in the upper part you can define, whether the original elements should be duplicated only once or multiple times.

The input options in the edit fields are:

• U = Horizontal distance between the center of two neighboring tendon elements

• V = Vertical distance between the center of two neighboring tendon elements

• n-U = Number of spaces between the tendon elements in horizotal direction

• n-V = Number of spaces between the tendon elements in vertical direction

Example:

Here are some examples for different input options:

Radiobutton	Values	Result
Single Element	U=1, V=0
Single Element	U=0, V=1
Single Element	U=1, V=0.5
Array	U=0.5, V=0, n-U=2
Array	U=0.5, V=0.5, n-U=2, n-V=2

Tutorial

A tutorial can be found here.

Restrictions

Currently, only beam systems can be visualized, and structural areas are not shown.

Note

This limitation can be bypassed by drawing dummy structure lines around the structural areas.

To display the 2D cross section, the structure line must currently be associated with an axis.