Known issues

Known issues and limitations

For general issues identified and planned to be fixed see the issue page.

There are some known limitations with the Robot object model that might make some information get lost when pushing to the software. The known limitations are outlined below.

Nodes

Missing Properties:

• Name

Node Constraints

Missing properties:

• Translation and Rotation (X, Y, Z) properties will all be set to 'Fixed' (even 'Spring'!). Only property 'Free' will be set to 'Spring' #158

Bars

Missing properties:

• Name

Section Property

When pushing a section property, the adapter first tries to create a standard section based on the name of the section. Which of the section data bases that will be used depends on the RobotConfig. Read the robot object relations page for more details.
Missing properties:

• Name. Some names sometimes gets changed slightly. (CHS 33.7x4.0 => CHS 33.7x4 etc.)
• Section property values might get changed if the properties of the pushed section doesn't match the section from the data base (as mentioned above).

Material

Robot uses a set of standard materials and the material of pushed objects will be set to a material with a matching name

The following might get changed due to the above mentioned:

• YoungsModulus
• Density
• CoeffThermalExpansion

Missing properties:

• DryDensity
• CompressiveYieldStrength
• TensileYieldStrength
• StrainAtYield

Releases

Missing properties:

• Name
• ReleaseTypes: Fixed, FixedNegative, FixedPositive, Free

FEMesh

Not Implemented

Panel Planar

Missing properties:

• Name
• PanelType (Always returned as 'Slab')