Hello
I'm trying to get steel beam deflections through a VBA script in excel.
I've been able to successfully connect to the database and get beam information (ID, coordinates, reactions) through the new interface. It seems like to get deflections, the only option is to use the old interface. I have inititalized the interface as below.
Set IGravitySteelDesign1 = RAMDataAcc1.GetDispInterfacePointerByEnum(IGravitySteelDesign_INT)
And then, I'm trying to get the beam deflections using a method from this interface.
IGravitySteelDesign1.GetBeamCompositeProperties IBeam.lUID, plNumStudSegments, 5, palNumStuds, pbShored, pdDeckAngleLeft, pdDeckAngleRight, pbEdgeOnLeft, pbEdgeOnRight, pdSlabWidthLeft, pdSlabWidthRight, pdMinSlabThicknessLeft, pdMinSlabThicknessRight
IGravitySteelDesign1.GetBeamCompDisp IBeam.lUID, pdInitialRight, pdInitialCenter, pdInitialLeft, pdPostLiveRight, pdPostLiveCenter, pdPostLiveLeft, pdPostTotalRight, pdPostTotalCenter, pdPostTotalLeft, pdNetTotalRight, pdNetTotalCenter, pdNetTotalLeft
The problem is that all the deflection values are zero even though my Steel Beam module has been run successfully. Note that the first command successfully returns the number of studs and other properties. It's the GetBeamCompDisp that doesn't seem to return the correct values.
Please let me know if any more information is required.
We have acknowledged this as a bug in DA. We will try to get it fixed, meanwhile beam deflections can still be obtained from reports.