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After using your technique with the order of elements being the order in which the user lays them down for many hours now. I come to the conclusion that it is not the best way for the user. I understand if it makes your converter quicker but for beam element no.2 even with a system of 2500 elements ...

To whom it may concern, I retract this suggestion based on the fact that it is much faster and eliminates a third of the time to run a lisp program in acad that generates a text blip on the start point of each element line in draw order and hence identifies the elements number. So the user does not ...

To whom it may concern, Please accept this suggestion as a suggestion and not an attack... Your dxf converter from my point of view could benifit from one simple improvement. I am working on a large spacial frame using your beam elements No. 2 and believe that you should move away from the idea of p...

The topic has a mistake.
Please replace Beam element no. 3 with no. 2
Best Regards,
Ben Standring

To whom it may concern, Your manual says that the local yy axis is parallel to the global XY coordinate system... However, if I was to draw an element in the direction of global z how do I know which way the elements y y axis points. I assume that it would default to parallel to the global y axis. I...

To whom it may concern,
I am curious as to whether there is the possiblity of calculating an Equivalent Von Mises stress for beam elements No. 3. I thought I saw how to do it in your manual but cannot find the page again. A page no. would suffice... Or an explanation
Best Regards,
Ben Standring