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How to design a Horizontal X braces connection (HXB) in

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Offline Camilo Andrés Carvajal Villamil Wed, Dec 23 2020 11:47 AM

Hi,

I'm trying to design a HXB connection bewteen the members of the picture, but I get the following message
.What could I be doing wrong?.
I already tried to erase the horizontal beam but problem still exists. thanks.

cruce1.STD

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Seth Guthrie
Mon, Dec 28 2020 4:07 PM
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+1
Horizontal bracing connections require that the members be assigned a “Member Attribute” to designate th…

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Seth Guthrie
Wed, Dec 23 2020 5:43 PM

The message indicates that you are trying to assign the VXB connection type which is for a joint in a
vertical brace. Whether assigning the VXB or an HXB connection a node is required where the braces

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intersect. The main problem in your file is that there is also a beam present (6 members from the
central node) and we don't have a horizontal brace type connection for that yet.

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Camilo Andrés Carvajal Villamil
Wed, Dec 23 2020 6:08 PM
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Anyway, I did a test deleting the beam to obtain only 4 members from central node and still the
error persists. In addition, the message says that it is a VXB connection but actually I select
HXB type connection.

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Seth Guthrie
Wed, Dec 23 2020 6:30 PM
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Something appears to be broken.  I'll pass it along to our developers for confirmation. 

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Seth Guthrie
Mon, Dec 28 2020 4:07 PM
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Horizontal bracing connections require that the members be assigned a “Member

Attribute” to designate them as “brace” members.   To do this select the members, go to
Beam Tools -> Add Attribute, choose attribute name MEMBTYPE, and attribute value
BRACE like this:

Once this is done, the HXB connection will work. 

One thing we’ve found, however, is the process of assigning member attributes has
problems.  For example, in this model whenever I tried I got a message saying “no
member selected” and ended up having to manually write the command into the Editor:

The updated STAAD file is attached if you want to take a look. 

cruce1rev.STD

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Camilo Andrés Carvajal Villamil
Mon, Dec 28 2020 4:15 PM
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It worked perfectly, thank you very much Seth.

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