Hello,
if a node is currently assigned several steel connections, only the results of the respective governing connection are displayed in the connection calculation results. As a result, it is not clear which utilization the more load-bearing connection achieves in a specific load combination.
A desirable result presentation would be similar to that of the structural calculation, where all results for each load combination are visible. This would allow the connections to be directly compared for each load combination.
Furthermore, this serves not only to identify the governing load combination but also other load combinations that have lower utilizations but also lead to a high utilization.
Best regards
Example:
Steel connections:

Results | Utilizations by load:

Results | Utilizations by connection:

Hello Benedikt
,
thank you very much for your inquiry!
This is not common practice in our add-ons. The data must be saved and always available when loading, which would ultimately affect the performance.
Therefore, we recommend creating separate files for the different connections.
Hello Gerhard,
thank you very much for the quick feedback! The argument regarding performance and additional data to be stored is of course understandable.
However, my background for the inquiry is a bit more specific: I am currently investigating whether larger parameter studies can basically be carried out with the connection calculations. For this, both different connection geometries and various load combinations have to be calculated. Ideally, I would therefore need the results per connection and per load combination in order to further evaluate them later.
If you create a separate file for each connection, this becomes relatively complex with many variants, especially since the load combinations should remain identical in each model. With very small mutations of the geometry, this would still be feasible (number of geometries = number of individual models).
One possible alternative might also be no permanent storage, but only an export option of the utilization for all load combinations per connection. That would already be sufficient for my use case.