With the interface, the Dlubal tab in Grasshopper is activated. This includes three component groups (Model Data, Loads, RFEM-6 Import/Export).
The Model Data group enables the control of the following objects:
- Materials, cross-sections & thicknesses (including layer structures)
- Nodes (including node mesh refinement and node supports)
- Lines (including line mesh refinement and line supports)
- Members (including eccentricities, hinges, nonlinearities, and member sets)
- Surfaces (including openings, eccentricities, surface mesh refinements, and surface supports)
- Solids
- Special objects (for example, rigid couplings, line hinges, node & line releases, surface contacts, and surface result adjustments)
The Load group includes the following components for generation of:
- Load cases, imperfection cases, design situations, and load combinations
- Nodal, line, member, member set, surface, and solid loads
- Nodal and line imposed displacements
- Free polygon loads
- Imperfections
The last group consists of components for the general control of RFEM 6. It allows the following actions:
- Control of global FE mesh settings
- Export from GH to RFEM (including use of templates)
- Start of the calculation
- Export of results to CSV or XML
- Opening and closing RFEM 6 files
- Import from RFEM to GH
