If you bridge object has a large number of tendons, you may prefer to enter the tendon data via interactive database editing or by importing a spreadsheet with tendon data in lieu of entering the tendon data in the Graphical User Interface.

You can also use this approach if you describe the tendon profile by a different set parameters that used by CSiBridge. In such a case, you can first convert the tendon definition from your format to the format expected by CSiBridge and then import the converted data to CSiBridge.

Background

The bridge tendon data information is stored in the following database tables:

Importing tendon data

You can export the aboves table into Excel via "Orb > Export > Excel", modify the tendon data and the import back via "Orb > Import > Excel".

Entering tendon data via interactive database editing

Alternatively, you can edit the tendons directly via interactive database editing ("Advanced Tab > Edit > More > Interactive Database Editing")