BuilderElement Class

Represents an element which lives in the a GH definition. GrassElement is the base class of generic containers for element data generated by the GH definition. In Assemble it gets converted to Beams, Springs,...

Inheritance Hierarchy

SystemObject
  KarambaCommon.UtilitiesCommonObject
    Karamba.ElementsBuilderElementBase
      Karamba.ElementsBuilderElement
        Karamba.ElementsBuilderElementStraightLine
        Karamba.ElementsBuilderShell

Namespace: Karamba.Elements
Assembly: KarambaCommon (in KarambaCommon.dll) Version: 2.2.0.4 (2.2.0.4)

Syntax

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[SerializableAttribute]
public abstract class BuilderElement : BuilderElementBase, 
	ICloneable, ISerializable

<SerializableAttribute>
Public MustInherit Class BuilderElement
	Inherits BuilderElementBase
	Implements ICloneable, ISerializable

[SerializableAttribute]
public ref class BuilderElement abstract : public BuilderElementBase, 
	ICloneable, ISerializable

[<AbstractClassAttribute>]
[<SerializableAttribute>]
type BuilderElement =  
    class
        inherit BuilderElementBase
        interface ICloneable
        interface ISerializable
    end

The BuilderElement type exposes the following members.

Constructors

	Name	Description
	BuilderElement	Initializes a new instance of the BuilderElement class. create an element builder.
	BuilderElement(SerializationInfo, StreamingContext)	Initializes a new instance of the BuilderElement class. Deserialize BuilderElement.

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Properties

	Name	Description
	bending_stiff	Gets or sets a value indicating whether bending stiffness is taken into account (turns beams into trusses and shells into membranes and vice versa).
	canBuckle	Gets or sets a value indicating whether can buckle.
	color	Gets or sets user defined color of the beam-set.
	crosec	Gets or sets the return cross section of the element.
	Ecce	Gets the nodal eccentricity of the element.
	ecce_glo	Gets or sets eccentricity which is defined in the global coordinate system.
	ecce_loc	Gets or sets eccentricity which is local to the element and can be separately set for each of them. The other types of eccentricity would be either attached to a cross section or oriented globally.
	guid	Gets the the builder's identifier.
	hasEccent	Gets a value indicating whether an element eccentricity is present.
	id	Gets or sets the identifier (name) of the element.
	ids_secondary	Gets the secondary identifiers of the element.
	is_active	Gets or sets a value indicating whether the element is active. If not active, the elements stiffness is reduced to such a degree that it does not influence results any more (soft-kill approach). The small remaining stiffness should however suffice to keep the system from becoming numerically kinematic.
	is_valid	Gets a value indicating whether the builder element is valid.
	is_visible	Gets or sets a value indicating whether the element is visible: true if the element is visible on the canvas.
	IsValid	Gets a value indicating whether the element is valid.
	modified_height	Gets or sets the cross section height (depth) modification factor of the this element. Can be set in a GH definition with the ModifyBeam-component.
	modified_thick	Gets or sets the cross section wall thickness modification factor of the this element. Can be set in a GH definition with the ModifyBeam-component.
	nII	Gets or sets list of nodal indexes or null.
	Ori	Gets or sets the orientation of the element.
	parent_ind	Gets or sets index of parent element from which this element may inherit its properties (material, cross section,...) A negative value signals that there is no parent;.
	Pos	Gets or sets the position of the element.
	UserData	Gets access to the user-data dictionary. (Inherited from CommonObject.)

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Methods

	Name	Description
	accepts	Returns true if the given cross section can be applied to the element. Returns false if you test e.g. a shell cross section against a beam element.
	addSecondaryID	Adds a secondary element identifier.
	Clone	clone the builder-element.
	Clone(ModelElement)	clone grass-element and link it to a given model element.
	CloneSecondaryIDs	clone the secondary element identifiers.
	Copy	copy contents of another grass-element.
	disassembleElement	Disassemble an element into its constituents.
	Equals	Determines whether the specified object is equal to the current object. (Inherited from Object.)
	Finalize	Allows an object to try to free resources and perform other cleanup operations before it is reclaimed by garbage collection. (Inherited from Object.)
	GetHashCode	Serves as the default hash function. (Inherited from Object.)
	GetObjectData	Serializes an element. (Overrides CommonObjectGetObjectData(SerializationInfo, StreamingContext).)
	GetType	Gets the Type of the current instance. (Inherited from Object.)
	HasUserData	true if the object has user-data attached. (Inherited from CommonObject.)
	MemberwiseClone	Creates a shallow copy of the current Object. (Inherited from Object.)
	parent_inds	return the indexes of all parents of the element.
	snapElement	change the element if nodes snap together according to the given list of node indexes. returns true if the element was completely snapped.
	ToString	Returns a string that represents the current object. (Inherited from CommonObject.)

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Fields

	Name	Description
	_color	user defined color of the beam-set.
	_eccentricity	nodal eccentricity of the element.
	_guid	the builder's identifier.
	_id	user given primary identification (name) of element.
	_ids_secondary	user given further identification (name) of element.
	_orientation	orientation of the element.
	_position	position of the element.

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Reference

Karamba.Elements Namespace