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2019-12-06

Question

Is there a way to prepare an EC3 buckling check without setting the intermediate support manually, or is there a workaround that can speed this up?


Answer:
Unfortunately not. Intermediate supports and nodal supports have to be set manually. The default configuration for effective lengths is 1,0*member length and for a set of members, one nodal support with the definition of u_y' and phi_x' on each side of the set of member.
To speed up the process of defining nodal supports, you can pick more nodes in one step by using the highlighted function in the attached image.