STAAD Commands and Input Instructions
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7. Element incidences of the generated sub-elements may be obtained
by providing the command 'PRINT ELEMENT INFORMATION'
after the 'MESH...' command in the input file.
8. If the STAAD input file contains commands for JOINT
COORDINATES, MEMBER INCIDENCES, ELEMENT
INCIDENCES and MESH GENERATION, they should be
specified in the following order:
STAAD SPACE
UNIT . . .
JOINT COORDINATES
…
MEMBER INCIDENCES
…
ELEMENT INCIDENCES
…
DEFINE MESH
…
GENERATE ELEMENT
…
9. Newly created joints will be merged with existing joints if they are
within 0.001 inches of each other.
Example
The following section of input illustrates the use of MESH
GENERATION facility, the user may compare this with the
geometry inputs for Example Prob. No. 10 in the STAAD example
manual: