Orienting Structure to Rhino Surfaces

Here's an example/tutorial for you to follow to use the plug-in to calculate member orientation angles based on the defining surface normal or nearest point.



To try this yourself, here is the Rhino file: Rhino Ellipse



Now the same basic procedure will work presently with 3 analysis packages, GSA, Sofistik (shown) and SAP2000. Strand7 and others coming shortly.
Here's the analysis models:
GSA
Sofistik (Note LOCA 0 is assumed for the moment.)
SAP2000

More instructions coming soon....