I have been asked to write a macro for Bentley Structural to change the property of some parts. Does someone have an example they can share or point me to where an example might be?
Search the Structural Detailing forum, there are some threads there about Structural vba. There was also a Structural VBA help file, but danged if I can find it now. I must have lost it when I updated Structural. Also take a look at the structural spreadsheet that was delivered with the program. It will let you query members, make changes to certain attributes, then save the changes back to the model. If that is not enough for your needs, the vba modules for that spreadsheet are a goldmine of existing code on how to interact with Structural members....
Microstation SS3 08.11.09.714
ProStructures V8i SS8 v8.11.14.238
Thanks Steve.
I found an MVBA snippet written by myself serveral years ago. This subrountine creates a structural member from within Bentley Structual. For your reference.
Sub CreateAMember(pPt As Point3d, qPt As Point3d, mySectionName As String) Dim myMember As STFLinearMember Dim section As STFSection Set myMember = New STFLinearMemberList Set section = New STFSectionList section.SetName mySectionName myMember.SetSTFSection section myMember.SetPartFamily "Steel" myMember.SetPartName "Beams and Columns" myMember.SetMaterial "Steel", "Q345B" myMember.SetPQPoints pPt, qPt myMember.SetPlacementPoint 5 myMember.SetRotation 0# myMember.SetCrossSectionReflection True myMember.CreateTFFormRecipeList myMember.Save TrueEnd Sub
Thanks Youngan.