Prototype: Using OpenAPI in SCIA Engineer

OpenAPI in SCIA Engineer is a set of libraries and example in C# that we used to create models of SuDuVo bridges, with complex shape and combination of beam and slab members.

OpenAPI gave us freedom in aspects, where Table Input is limiting us. We can create not only variants of the structure, but also different models of the same type, but with different number of spans, radius or material distribution (varying flange widths and thicknesses in the longitudinal direction).

The C# prototype code took us only 2 days to make, which I felt is quite a success, while it would take a considerable time constructing a single model by hand. OpenAPI have still some  modelling limitations, but it offers the most freedom in modelling and creating next project in it took half the time. It also allows to run SCIA Engineer automatically, import the structure and run the analysis. All this is automatically handled by the C# script.