SCIA Engineer BIM link for steel member design (EN)

Come attivare il collegamento

• Scaricare e installare l'ultima versione di IDEA StatiCa.
• Assicurarsi di utilizzare una versione supportata della propria soluzione FEA/BIM.

IDEA StatiCa integra i collegamenti BIM nelle soluzioni FEA/BIM durante la sua installazione. È possibile controllare lo stato e attivare altri collegamenti BIM per i software installati successivamente nel programma di installazione dei collegamenti BIM.

Si noti che alcune soluzioni FEA richiedono ulteriori passaggi per attivare completamente il loro collegamento BIM a IDEA StatiCa.

Apri IDEA StatiCa e naviga nella scheda BIM. Clicca su Attiva il tuo collegamento BIM... (Activate your BIM link...).

Potrebbe apparire la notifica "Vuoi consentire a questa applicazione di apportare modifiche al tuo dispositivo?"; in tal caso, confermare con il pulsante Sì.

Installare il collegamento BIM per il software selezionato (se trovato). La schermata indica anche lo stato di altri collegamenti BIM eventualmente già installati (Intalled).

How to use IDEA StatiCa Checkbot

Download the attached project, open it in SCIA Engineer, and run the calculation to get the internal forces over the structure.

After that, run the IDEA StatiCa Checkbot application. 

Select the New option with project type Steel and design code EN. Then select Create project.

The new Checkbot project is ready to import connections and members from SCIA Engineer.

In SCIA Engineer, select one of the inside members, as shown in the picture.

Import

Then in Checkbot select Member.

This will import the beam and its load effects into Checkbot - with the exact coordinates, orientations, and section sizes as per the FEA/BIM model.

Please note that your node and member numbering might be different, also the elevation position of the member itself. 

As you can see, the selected member with all related members was imported.

You can check the internal forces. Select Draw, then the desired internal force and combination, then left-click on the connection box and follow the steps below in the picture.

Elements can be merged together directly in Checkbot, then in the Member application; they will be a single continuous element.

Merge both perpendicular related members. Left-click the I-profile M-82, select Merge operation, then tick the M83 box in the merge design window, and follow the steps as shown in the picture. 

In this window, you will see an informative alert about the operation that will occur, accept it.

Make the same merging action for another group of I-profile. After changes, our model should look as in the following pictures.

1. member with imported eccentricities

1. member without imported eccentricities

You can control what load case or combination will be loaded to the Member application by clicking on Loads and managing Result classes for checks. 

Here in Load Configurator, you can add load cases for the member application. Please notice by default the Evaluate critical results function is enabled, which filters critical combinations to speed up the calculation. You can turn it off and all combinations will be included in the calculation.  

Members modul

Now we can open the Member application. Just left-click on Open.

Here you can see our Member application.

In the beginning, let us design the joints of the member U-profile, so please select the first connection and click on Edit connection. As you can see now I-profiles are represented by one continuous element, thanks to the merging we made.

We have successfully imported and checked a purlin from the SCIA Engineer. 

Download allegati

• BIM-Member-SCIA-Example.esa (ESA, 3,7 MB)
• BIM-Member-SCIA-Example.zip (ZIP, 2 MB)