Hi at all.

Today I had to made many tests. Z88i1.txt was o.k. With three times a zero at line 1.
Z88i2.txt was also o.k. There is a filechecker in z88 for proving.

When I start to run the calculation z88 allways told me that my static is not corect.
So I made a more and more simple structure step by step. Five or six times. Allways the same problem.

Then I made a simple cranestructure. > Everything was running for the first time.<

If we look at the crane drawing we see that the nodes have growing numbers along the x-axis.
This depends on the way the drawing was made. With Array in one direction.
The Biplane drawing is in its nature a more chaotic system.
We see this how the node numbers are placed.

In the old way with dxf files we had to draw twice. First the chaotic (normal) way to create the structure.
Then from one end along x to the other end allways left around line after line. The FEM way.

Max> may it be possible to choose the points with [ get points] and then to click all the lines in the rigth order bevor
we start the script?
And then the scipt read it on the same way?

I´m shure that will help.

Now we have: the simple structure, z88i1.txt from it, z88i2.txt. and z88o3.txt.
Z88o3.txt shows all the tensions in the struts between the nodes.

The tools I used: MoI,
JFE -JensFileEditor- a free english version is in the net.
It opens Max´s script direct in in the rigth way.
A capture programm to make the plotting pictures.
Word for its search and replacement funktion.
We need it for editing z88o3.txt.

search ^p^p
replace it with ^p

It makes z88o3.txt shorter.

then we use JFE to marking vertical all the +/- loads of the struts and save them in a new file.
Later we set every content (loadcase) in an Excel sheet.
We also make a folder structur for every loadcase.
When all the little problems are solved I have to make a summary of the calculation process.

This is my weekend result.

Your optimistic Hans