{"id":12508,"date":"2024-02-01T14:58:27","date_gmt":"2024-02-01T14:58:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/support.buildsoft.eu\/?post_type=ht_kb&#038;p=12508"},"modified":"2024-02-02T07:27:26","modified_gmt":"2024-02-02T07:27:26","slug":"how-to-join-bars-into-1-continuous-bar-member","status":"publish","type":"ht_kb","link":"https:\/\/support.buildsoft.eu\/nl\/knowledge-base\/how-to-join-bars-into-1-continuous-bar-member\/","title":{"rendered":"How to join bars into 1 continuous bar member"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>When exporting to Idea StatiCa Connection, it is often needed that individual bar elements (from global analysis software) are grouped into 1 physical bar member. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You can use the Merge function in Idea CheckBot to do this.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-ht-blocks-messages wp-block-hb-message wp-block-hb-message--withicon is-style-info\">In BIM Expert 2024r01 release, this will option will be available in the CheckBot. In the meantime, you can use the workaround below.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Workaround for BIM Expert 2024 and older:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol>\n<li>Close CheckBot<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Browse to the folder where the ubsm model was exported, e.g. %localappdata%\\BuildSoft\\BIM Expert\\IDEA StatiCa\\Projects\\23.1\\&lt;ModelName&gt;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Open the file <code><strong>IdeaStatiCa.proj<\/strong><\/code>  with NotePad, NotePad++ or any text editor app<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/support.buildsoft.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/bim_idea_ideaproj.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/support.buildsoft.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/bim_idea_ideaproj.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12521\" width=\"512\" height=\"241\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<ol start=\"4\">\n<li>Change CAD to FEA in the <code>&lt;SourceApp&gt;<\/code> line:<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/support.buildsoft.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/bim_idea_CADFEA.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/support.buildsoft.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/bim_idea_CADFEA.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12520\" width=\"601\" height=\"129\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><code>&lt;SourceApp&gt;<strong>CAD<\/strong>&lt;\/SourceApp&gt;<\/code>  ====&gt;  <code>&lt;SourceApp&gt;<strong>FEA<\/strong>&lt;\/SourceApp&gt;<\/code><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol start=\"5\">\n<li>Save the file<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Launch CheckBot<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Open the IdeaStatiCa project<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Now, the merging and splitting of members should be available<br><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/support.buildsoft.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/IDEAMerge.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1600\" height=\"165\" src=\"https:\/\/support.buildsoft.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/IDEAMerge.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12518\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When exporting to Idea StatiCa Connection, it is often needed that individual bar elements (from global analysis software) are grouped into 1 physical bar member. You can use the Merge function in Idea CheckBot to do this. Workaround for BIM Expert 2024 and older: &lt;SourceApp&gt;CAD&lt;\/SourceApp&gt; ====&gt; &lt;SourceApp&gt;FEA&lt;\/SourceApp&gt;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"ht-kb-category":[93],"ht-kb-tag":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/support.buildsoft.eu\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb\/12508"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/support.buildsoft.eu\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/support.buildsoft.eu\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/ht_kb"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/support.buildsoft.eu\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/support.buildsoft.eu\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12508"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/support.buildsoft.eu\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb\/12508\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12523,"href":"https:\/\/support.buildsoft.eu\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb\/12508\/revisions\/12523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/support.buildsoft.eu\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"ht_kb_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/support.buildsoft.eu\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb-category?post=12508"},{"taxonomy":"ht_kb_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/support.buildsoft.eu\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb-tag?post=12508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}