I am trying to pull ultimate factored moments for all beams in a project to a spreadsheet via RAM DA and VBA, but the IGravitySteel1.GetBeamDesignMoments is not working for lateral beams. What is the easiest way to pull lateral beam info similar to the outputs of GetBeamDesignMoments? I mainly only care about maximum moment and composite capacities. Thanks in advance.
Also worth noting I haven't dived into using basic memberforces for this yet as tons of iterations would need to occur to check for where on the beam max moment occurs.
No ideas?
Andy,
Just a fellow RAM DA tinkerer here.
It looks like there is no equivalent method for lateral beams. Have you tried iterating through a beam using the GetLatBeamForcesLeftAt method?
That was going to be my next step, I'm not in a rush to make it so I decided to post here in hopes there was some sort of equivelant command for laterals.
You can perhaps write an implementation of some simple numerical method like Newton-Raphson to get you the maximum/minimum values. Fortunately RAM DA seems to have a pretty fast interface with VBA so it should not be cripplingly slow.