STAAD Commands and Input Instructions
Section 5
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5.47.3 Member Selection Specification
Purpose
This command may be used to perform the MEMBER SELECTION
operation.
General format:
⎧MEMBER memb-list ⎫
SEL
ECT ⎨ ⎬
⎩
ALL
⎭
⎩
membergroupname
⎭
⎩
deckname
⎭
Description
This command instructs STAAD to select specified members based
on the parameter value restrictions and specified code. The
selection is done using the results from the most recent analysis
and iterating on sections until a least weight size is obtained. Refer
to Section 2 for more details.
It is important that the keywords MEMBER or ALL be provided.
Thus, the keyword SELECT by itself is not sufficient.
Examples
1) SELECT MEMB 22 TO 35
2) SELECT ALL
Notes
1) The output of this command may be controlled using the
TRACK parameter. Various codes support various levels of
details. Refer to the appropriate section of the documentation,
as explained in the table in 5.47.1 for more information on the
TRACK parameter.