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SAP2000_Toolkit - implement loads and combos #6

Closed JosefTaylor closed 5 years ago

JosefTaylor commented 6 years ago

Need to implement loads and combos; has there been a consensus on how to treat SAP structure vs. Robot/GSA/etc. structure? in SAP, Load Patterns are groups of loads, Load Cases are analyses to run (which usually correspond 1:1 with Load Patterns) and Load Combos are linear superposition of Load Case results.

I understand that in some other softwares loads are assigned directly to Cases without the intermediary of Patterns, though it is a very useful structure in CSI products.

This also relates to the issues with naming Load Cases in BuroHappoldEngineering/ETABS_Toolkit#59

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