Please follow the instructions provided below to set boundary conditions for each bearing location (insertion point) that you have defined while creating the bridge layout.
| 1 | Navigate to to Superstructure > Boundary Conditios > Bearing Fixity
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| 2 | When you reach the "Insertion Point" column, click on the first line, and then select the "Pick" button in the window that appears. | |
| 3 | Select the insertion points that were defined in the previous step in the 3D view. Pick all insertion point for define boundary conditions |  |
| 4 | Set Tx/Ty/Tz/Rx/Ry/Rz. |  |
| 5 | Set Transfer Force to Substructure as Yes for interior pier locations. | |
| 6 | Set Transfer Force to Substructure as No for start and end support locations. | |
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Follow the below steps to copy and paste all inputs from our data set.
Navigate to Bearing Fixity under Boundary Conditions on the tree view. |
Copy Articulation from model inputs and paste into OpenBrIM. |
Completed Bearing Fixity is illustrated below.
Copy the desired data with the automatic copy button in the upper left corner. Click on the first cell in and use the Ctrl+V shortcut to paste.  
If icon won’t appear, collapse page tree menu by clicking on arrow or using shortcut “[”.  While pasting large data, it would be handy to turn of Auto-refresh . 
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Bearing Fixity |
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Articulation |
BF1 IP1 Free Fixed Fixed Free Free Free 0 NO BF2 IP2 Free Fixed Fixed Free Free Free 0 NO BF3 IP3 Fixed Fixed Fixed Free Free Free 0 YES BF4 IP4 Fixed Fixed Fixed Free Free Free 0 YES BF5 IP5 Fixed Fixed Fixed Free Free Free 0 YES BF6 IP6 Fixed Fixed Fixed Free Free Free 0 YES BF7 IP7 Free Fixed Fixed Free Free Free 0 NO BF8 IP8 Free Fixed Fixed Free Free Free 0 NO |
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