For now, the link works for a wide variety of connections/joints. However, please take into account yet unsupported functionality.
Limitation: For now, importing only steel connections (no concrete) is possible.
Limitation: All nodes are imported as connections. Also, the intermediate nodes are imported as connections.
Limitation: Only simple combinations.
Creating the load combinations in midas GEN NX is based on combining previously defined combinations (Add and Envelope). For now, the BIM link doesn’t allow the import of these multilevel combinations, but allows the import of only two “single-level” types of load combinations:
- Basic Add combination – means linear combinations of only individual load cases. No Add combination, Envelope combination, Moving load, or Settlement load can be included in the imported combination.
- Basic Envelope combination – means a simple Envelope of only individual load cases. No Add combination, Envelope combination, Moving load, or Settlement load can be included in the imported combination.
Workaround: For example, in the case of the moving load, the user has to create a linear load case that causes extreme internal forces in the connection (by the Moving Load Tracer feature, for example), and then use this load case in the add combination.
Limitation: Nodal loads are not imported; only internal force imports are available.
This limitation could cause unbalanced forces in the connection due to nodal loads being entered directly in the node, which basically do not create internal forces on the members.
