BuildingTclViewer User Manual

Run BuildingTclViewer

• myBuildingTclviewer.tcl – BuildingTcl with graphical interface

Incorporates BuildingTcl & BuildingTclviewer commands into the Tcl/Tk Interpreter

This file needs to be sourced from the OpenSeesTk.exe prompt, or by double-clicking on the BuildingTclViewer.bat file

1. Run from OpenSeesTk Prompt

a. Run OpenSeesTk.exe – a Tk window opens up (do not close it).

b. Source myBuildingTclviewer.tcl at the OpenSees prompt

the Tk window becomes the BuildingTclviewer

Or

2. Double-click on myBuildingTclviewer.bat

File Menu : Input-File Management

To start using BuildingTclViewer, select the File Menu in the menu bar.

At the first opening of BuildingTclViewer there are three options:

• New -- Start the input file from scratch
• Load (Recommended) -- Load an existing BuildingTcl script.
• Exit -- Exit program without saving to user-specified input file.

Once an input file has been selected, more options are available to the user:

• View $Filename -- View the input file. In the current relase, there are no editing feature
• Reload & Source $Filename -- Clear memory, reload filename and source it -- this will undo all changes that had been made in the viewer since the last save
• Source additional File -- Source additional BuildingTcl script without clearing the memory

Once a new file is created or an existing one is opened, the BuildingTclViewer menus serve the same purpose:

• create and/or edit input
• run selected load-combination analyses on selected models and automatically post-process the data
• view and save post-processed analysis results.