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Piping Input menu: Environment > Include Structural Input Files

Import Model toolbar: Include structural files

Includes existing structural model into the current job. The structural model must have been built and successfully error checked in the structural steel preprocessor accessed from the CAESAR II menu. For more information, see Structural Steel Modeler.

After a structural model has been built, you can include it into any piping input. You can include the names of up to 20 different structural models. After this is done, you can plot and analyze the structural model with the piping model. The structural models need not reside in the current folder.

Piping systems are usually tied to structural steel models by using restraints with connecting nodes. Check that there are no node number conflicts between structure and pipe models. After you define a restraint with a connecting node between the pipe and structure, CAESAR II knows where to put the structure in the resulting preprocessor plot. If no connection between the pipe and the structure is given, the structure is plotted starting from the origin of the piping system. In this case, the resulting plot may not meet your expectations.