NOTE: I should have opened the Informationen file in a proper word processor. :-( It comes pre-parsed.

 

I did a Parse of the Kranträger file in an attempt to understand it, and reconcile it with theoryguidePDF.
A few differences and questions resulted.

// Header is the first group, and has seven entries. (Versus 5 ???)
// #Dimensions = 3
// #Knots (or #Nodes) = 26
// #Struts (or #Elements) = 72
// DegreesOfFreedom = 60 (3 times 26 = 78, not 60 ???) (Maybe because structure is open, not closed?)
// LawOfE-modulus (What is this?)
// Flag (KFLAG is 0 for cartesian coordinates)
// Flag (Why are there two flags?)

3 26 72 60 1 0 0
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// The second group has entries for each of the 26 KnotNodes.
// Knot#, DegreesFreedomThisNnot, Xcoord, Ycoord, Zcoord.
1 3 20 20 0
2 3 0 0 0
3 3 10 10 25
4 3 0 20 0
5 3 20 0 0
6 3 30 10 25
7 3 40 20 0
8 3 40 0 0
9 3 50 10 25
10 3 60 20 0
11 3 60 0 0
12 3 70 10 25
13 3 80 20 0
14 3 80 0 0
15 3 90 10 25
16 3 100 20 0
17 3 100 0 0
18 3 110 10 25
19 3 120 20 0
20 3 120 0 0
21 3 130 10 25
22 3 140 20 0
23 3 140 0 0
24 3 150 10 25
25 3 160 20 0
26 3 160 0 0
========================================

// The third group is explained on page 55 of theoryguidePDF.
// not sure if this is the correct parse.
1 4
1 2

2 4
3 2

3 4
3 4

4 4
3 1
etcetera (Did not parse the rest of the file)

- Brian