Floor models are exported to SAFE and results are imported back to AEC | BOLT Design Suite from this section.
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Figure 1
→ Click “Design Strip” button as in Figure 1 to draw directions for layers.
When direction1 is drawn direction2 which is perpendicular to it will be drawn automatically as illustrated in Figure 2. These directions are assigned to layers by default but can be edited later as demonstrated in Figure 3.
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Figure 2
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Figure 3
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Figure 4
→ Edit the parameters shown in Figure 4
→ Click update button before exporting any file.
→ Click “Export SAFE (.f2k) File” button as shown in Figure 1.
→ Name the file and select where to save then click “Save” button in the pop up window to create “.f2k” export file.
If the story is not applicable to export, BDS will give warning as log.txt demonstrated in Figure 5.
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Figure 5
→ To export the analysis results of SAFE, while the analyzed model is open in SAFE click “File” then “Export Model” and select “SAFE.F2K” as illustrated in Figure 6.
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Figure 6
→ Select tables as shown in Figure 7.
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Figure 7
→ Name the file and select where to save then click “Save” in the pop up window to create “.f2k” file of analyzed model.
→ Click “Import SAFE Results (.f2k)” button as shown in Figure 1 then select the .f2k file of analyzed model to import results of SAFE. Importing is succesful if compare is as shown in Figure 8.
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Figure 8
→ Click “Safe Compare” button as shown in Figure 1 to compare imported data later.