Our webservice offers users the opportunity to communicate with RFEM 6 and RSTAB 9 using various programming languages. Dlubal's high-level functions (HLFs) allow you to expand and simplify the WebService's functionality. In line with RFEM 6 and RSTAB 9, using our WebService makes the engineer's work easier and faster. Check it out now! This tutorial shows you how to use the C# library by means of a simple example.
Steel connections in RFEM 6 can be created by simply entering predefined components in the Steel Joints add-on. The collection of these components is constantly being improved to make your work even easier even when modeling steel connections. In this article, the connection plate component is introduced as a component recently added to the add-on's library.
This article shows you how to use the add-on Optimization & Costs / CO2 Emission Estimation to estimate the model costs. Furthermore, it shows you how to optimize parameters based on minimum cost when working with parameterized models and blocks.
Webservice is a communication between machines and programs. This communication is provided via the network and can, therefore, be used by any program that can send and receive strings via the HTTP protocol. RFEM 6 and RSTAB 9 provide an interface based on these cross-platform webservices. This tutorial shows the basics using the VBA programming language.
Building Model is one of the special solution add-ons in RFEM 6. It is an advantageous tool for modeling, with which building stories can be created and manipulated easily. Building Model can be activated at the beginning of the modeling process and afterwards.
The add-on modules for designing structural member components according to national, European, and international standards also show design results in addition to numerical output in tables graphically, as diagrams displayed on the framework.
In RFEM and RSTAB, parametrization provides you with many options, especially for recurring structural elements. Within the parametrization tool, you can access the internal values of a model; for example, the values of a selected cross‑section. The following example shows how this can work.
To work even more efficiently, RF‑GLASS allows you to create and save different, user‑defined layer structures that can be reimported later or loaded in another project.
In RF‑/FOUNDATION Pro, the available reinforcing steel diameters can be adjusted by the user. The adjustment of the available rebar diameters works similarly to the same function in the RF‑/CONCRETE (Members) and RF‑/CONCRETE Columns add‑on modules.
Once you have determined the final tendon geometry in RF‑TENDON, exporting the model to a CAD program can be useful. For this purpose, the module includes the option to export the file in the .dxf file format. You can select the export function by right-clicking the workspace. After selecting the DXF format and the storage location, additional settings can be made.
RFEM and RSTAB offer many display options in the Display Navigator. They can be completely different, depending on their function. You often have to click several times to make certain changes. If you want to optimize your work, you can create user‑defined views. In these views, you can save all specified settings. The following example illustrates this principle.
An individual user‑defined workspace can increase your productivity and make your daily work easier. This is why many users take the opportunity to adjust the toolbars in RFEM and RSTAB and to create their own toolbars containing the most frequently used commands.
In RFEM and RSTAB, you can work with the Project Manager. It allows you to create an entire project structure and to connect it with the folders on the local hard disk.
In RFEM 5 and RSTAB 8, you can save problems and warnings occurring during the model check as an extra view. This way, you can easily work through the hints and messages, one after the other, cleaning the model. The function is available for double nodes, overlapping members/lines, and surfaces.
For a quick overview of the cross‑sections used, you can show the members in color sorted by cross‑section. Use the right mouse button in the work window to select "Colors in Graphics According to" → "Cross -Sections" from the shortcut menu. In the current program versions, you can use a panel with an editable color scale for this.
Due to rapid development in the IT sector, including structural design, the trend is towards a global model. Large projects are rarely carried out by a single engineer. Unified project management is the key to successful work in major projects.
For a clearer display of the structure, you can display it in different colors. The corresponding selection can be opened by right-clicking the work window.
In RFEM 5 and RSTAB 8, you can generate surface loads like wind and snow by means of the implemented load generator. On frameworks, these surface loads are also displayed as surface loads in the graphic by default.
The network-capable Project Manager controls the projects of all Dlubal Software applications in one central location. The projects are linked to the folders on the hard disk.
In RFEM and RSTAB, you can add a comment to model objects in the graphic. When inserting a comment, the origin of the current work plane automatically jumps temporarily to the same plane in which the comment is placed. This prevents comments from being accidentally placed very far from the object.
In RFEM 5 and RSTAB 8, you can now create a work plane by simply selecting three points. It is no longer necessary to create a user-defined coordinate system.
The final results of the designs of members and sets of members in the RF‑/STEEL EC3 add-on module can be displayed graphically in the work window of RFEM and RSTAB. By selecting the corresponding design case in the load case menu, the results contained in it are displayed.