• Is it possible to rotate a series of plates at a specifed angle?

    I have a 400mm flat plate that I would like to "bend" 100mm from the bottom at an angle of 60 degrees. The highlighted portion of the plate is what I would like to bend. I am also using trapezoidal loading and am wondering how this might be affected…
  • Parametric meshing - junction of two boundaries of the two model meshing

    Hi all in the attached model, it has been split into several boundaries within a outer boundary (this was done as the depth is different for each boundary. while using Parametric mesh and creating the adjacent boundary mesh, it was found that…
  • Releasing plate elements from attached beams?

    Here's a situation that seems to come up frequently: I create a model in STAAD that includes a combination of linear elements (for things like beams, columns, etc.) and plate elements (to model surface elements like floors, roofs, etc.). When surface…