Joint/Member Naming conventions

[Imagineer]

Does anyone use a standard naming convention for joint or member generation? I'm really tired of seeing member #138 and having to look at a map to see where member #138 is at. I really wish REI would allow us to use characters so that member #138 could become column B5.


Imagineer

 

[MPHenry]

Imagineer,
In order to keep track to some degree of the nodes and member numbers I tend to divide my numbering systen into floor levels. Say ground level nodes numbered 1 to 99, first floor level 100 to 199, second floor 200 to 299 etc.
The members can be numbered in the same way. I then generally number the columns using a higher number range so that I don't confuse beam and column members
I find that this helps, particularly when dealing with a large analysis file.

Regards

Mike B-)

 

[Riz]

Does it imply that u manually carry this out! It also means that u do not utilise GIG. Please tell me about the time for the PC (PIII) to carry out a large file calculation.