Bridge to ILX Connection and ILX Calcs

The Bridge tab hands a member and its forces to the other ILX web apps through your ILX account.

Send to ILX Connection / ILX Calcs #

1. Select a member (or pick it in the dialog).
2. Bridge ▸ Send to Connection (ilxconnection.com) or Send to Calcs (ilxcalcs.com).
3. Choose the end (i or j), the combinations (all, up to 60, or one) and, for Connection, the connection type: single plate, double angle, shear end plate, shear tee, seated, flange-plated moment, extended end-plate moment, directly welded moment, or the column base plate.
4. Build the link: the model is saved first; the server solves every combination (or uses the cached results) and builds the payload. The dialog lists the end forces per combination (member local axes, N tension +).
5. Open in ILX Connection / ILX Calcs: a new, unsaved calculation opens with the section, grade and the forces (V and P for shear connections, M as well for moment connections) for you to review before saving.

The data travels in the link's address fragment, which is never sent to a server or written to a log.

Connection type per member end #

Bridge ▸ Connection type: for the selected members and end (i, j or both) choose Shear connection (the end moments My and Mz are released in the analysis) or Moment connection (restored). The choice is stored on the member and used by the hand-off; Undo reverts it.

Project navigator #

Bridge ▸ Project navigator lists the models of the project (open any of them) and shows how many members of this model are designed. The model tree (left) is the navigator of the open model.