Is there an easy/quick way to set the unbraced length (LZ) of all members in a model to the length of the physical member they're a part of? I have over 10,000 physical members alone, so it is incredibly time consuming to check the length of each one and apply an LZ command to each sub member...
Unfortunately not. You can have multiple of these physical members, having the same physical member length, selected in one shot ( selection could be based on cross section, group etc. ) and assign the LZ at the same time to all but that is the closest you can get to what you are looking for. We are actually working on the physical modeling capabilities of STAAD.Pro so that tasks like these can be accomplished easily in the future.
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Is there a way to select all members with a certain length? (to make it easier to create groups)
Unfortunately the answer is no again.
Seems like you could write an OpenSTAAD macro to check through all members and group the ones of a certain length. No?
I have no idea how to write any kind of macro