BuildingTclViewer File Menu

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

There are three choices:

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

New

• The user is prompted for a new filename and location.
• We recommend that the user not save the input file in the root directory of the program, but that a new sub-folder be created.

Save the name and location of the new input file:

NOTE: BuildingTclViewer does not autosave to the selected filename. As a backup, evertime an object is saved, the program saves all the current data to a BuildingTcl script named CurrentData.tcl in the same folder at the input file

Load

• The script may be generated using a txt editor, or created using BuildingTclViewer and saved onto a file.
• The user can modify and augment the input and then save the new script to the same file or a new one.
• NOTE: The current release of BuildingTcl and BuildingTclViewer cannot interpret input files with OpenSees commands. Only files with Tcl and BuildingTcl commands are interpreted.

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