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June 2007 |
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<printable version>
Dear eNews reader,
The User Contest 2007 has been completely finished up; the book is already at the printer’s and will be available this month. If you would like to receive one copy free of charge, it can be applied for via our website.
Actually in this eNews you can read more about the impressive winning project of category 5, realised by our internationally operating customer Stageco. Further on the usual latest news and tips and tricks from the SCIA front. By the way, this is the last eNews before the summer holidays, enjoy this reading and have a well-deserved holiday.
We will meet again next September.
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| More to the projects of the SCIA User Contest 2007 |
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Last month the winners of the contest were announced and a
digital preview of the 99 projects was published.
This month the User Contest book will come available in printed form. Upon reading the comments of the participants with regard to their honoured projects, we discovered the following trends:
- design is 3D: it supports the designer’s creativity and gives the precision to address the project complexity. As side effects: drawings, images, bill of materials are generated
- engineering design is more than assuring the structural stability; engineers address the difficulties of execution and the measures on maintenance
- ... more
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The complete 3D-model on 1 layer without loss of intelligence in Allplan |
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Within Allplan you can use reference planes to provide architectural elements of a relative height.
This allows building a 3D-model, which is very flexible, also in the case of alterations.
These reference planes mostly differ from layer to layer. If one wants to look at the full model, it is obvious that more floors (layers) have to be put on active.
The use of 3D Xrefs allows the user to keep on modelling in a traditional way; on an additional layer, you recapture the different floors/layers in the form of an Xref.
The big advantage of these 3D-Xrefs is that they observe the reference planes of the layer, to which they refer.
That’s why all structural elements keep their mutual relative positions. In this way you can visualize the wholemodel with one single layer, without losing the intelligence of the different floors/layers.
How do you use the Xrefs within Allplan? more |
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| The future of houses with a steel structure |
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Facing the environmental challenges, many people turn to prefabricated steel for the construction of their houses.
The type of houses constructed with metal frames is in full progress, and the sector is still growing.
A steel structure connected to high tech materials, isolation and heating techniques in a contemporary house shows however unrivalled advantages with regard to the environmental challenges of today. A steel structure doesn’t only mean the presence of a metal frame; it is in fact the whole structure of the house that is built that way.
More specific advantages with regard to steel are: architectural flexibility, earthquake-resistant building, exterior coating in steel (anti-burglary barrier and isolating plaster), metal cabinet work with cold bridge rupture (anti-burglary and isolation) and ... more |
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The Winning Project: Robbie Williams 'Close Encounters' – Stageco (B) |
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About Stageco
 Stageco, based in Tildonk (B), is an internationally organized staging company, which originated in 1984 from the renowned Rock Werchter Festival in Belgium. In spite of its long and rich tradition, Stageco remains a pioneer 'pur sang' and a trendsetter. They took important steps during recent years to provide their expertise to the international touring market with customers like the Rolling Stones, U2, Bon Jovi, Bruce Springsteen and numerous other artists.
About the Winning Project in Category 5: CAE Special Projects
Participator: Tom Frederickx (engineering steel structure)
Height: ± 22 m - Overhang: ± 13 m with a capacity of ± 9 tons
Global capacity complete stage: ± 65 tons and ± 24 tons use load on work platforms
Mass: ± 300 tons (14 trailers) / set (2 complete sets are built)
Location: mobile structure; trucked, shipped and flown around the world.
Building sequence: 2 days building up, production day, show day,
12 hours take down and loading,
1 or 2 travel days ...
The challenge was to design, fabricate and operate a portable structure to host one of the most popular artists of the moment: Robbie Williams. The planning for this world tour 'Close Encounters' started early 2005.
The first sketches were made in December 2005 and the delivery date for both identical structures was beginning of May 2006. Very early in the design process, a calculation model was created to assess the influence of the overhang, use loads and wind loads on the overall stability and to determine which profiles would have to be used. Specific constraints to the structure were that it should be possible to build it within 24 working hours and to dismantle it and load it on its 14 trucks in 12 hours. This very tight schedule ... more |
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Break narrow tables to strips in SCIA•ESA PT |
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The document in SCIA•ESA PT may contain up to 1999 pages. Within this document, the user can input all kinds of data, pictures and results. This causes however a huge capture of the PC's memory and it is not practical to have pages full of long tables.
For this reason, the development of the configuration of the tables was indispensable.
With a right button click, the user can go to the table composer. Under the item 'Layout', one can see the option 'Break narrow tables to strips'.
Let’s consider the possibility 'Break table to strips whenever possible'.
Now, we obtain ... more
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Stageco, based in Tildonk (B), is an internationally organized staging company, which originated in 1984 from the renowned Rock Werchter Festival in Belgium. In spite of its long and rich tradition, Stageco remains a pioneer 'pur sang' and a trendsetter. They took important steps during recent years to provide their expertise to the international touring market with customers like the Rolling Stones, U2, Bon Jovi, Bruce Springsteen and numerous other artists.
