This tutorial is using Rhino 8. If you work with IDEA StatiCa version up to 24.1.3, see this tutorial.
It is sometimes necessary to use plates with unusual shapes arbitrarily rotated in space in complex joints. It comes mainly with the scheme of the joint created in 3rd party software. In such a case, the following tutorial can help you understand how to import the data into IDEA StatiCa Connection.
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