Replicating structural elements in FLAC3D

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Hi,

Is there any way to replicate a group of structural elements by a certain distance in any direction?

Regards,

2

Hi,
It’s not clear to me what you want to archive. Can you be more specific?

3

For instance, we define a group of piles in a 3D model. We want to copy and paste them to the distance of 50m in X direction without changing their relative distances of each other. Is there any easier way to do that than defining the piles for their new location from the beginning?

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There is no direct command to do that in FLAC3D. You can write a FISH function as following:
For each pile in the given group, generate a new pile at a distance from the original one with the command
"structure pile create by-line [v1] [v2]" where v1,v2 are the positions of the two ends.
Then copy the properites from the original one to the new one using the fish funcition “structure.pile.prop(…)”

5

Thank you very much.