A More Reliable Foundation for Structural Models: Linkoteq Core v0.6
Linkoteq advanced its shared Structural Core schema to v0.6 and updated the 3D Model dependency. Here is what the repository evidence shows and what still needs runtime validation.
One Structural Model. A More Connected Engineering Workflow.
Structural engineers often recreate the same information several times.
A framing concept starts as a sketch. It becomes a 3D model. Geometry and loads are transferred into analysis software. Members and connections are checked separately. Results are then carried into calculations, drawings, and reports.
Every transfer creates another opportunity for information to be lost, duplicated, or interpreted differently.
Linkoteq is working toward a different approach.
With Structural Core v0.6, we are building a common engineering foundation that can allow different Linkoteq tools to work with the same structural information, including:
- 🏗️ Geometry and structural members
- 📐 Sections and materials
- ⚖️ Loads and engineering properties
- 🔗 Member relationships and connectivity
- 🧮 Information needed for analysis and design checks
Why does this matter to engineers?
Imagine an architect changes the column grid of a steel building.
Ideally, the engineer should not have to manually rebuild the same structural information in several applications. The updated geometry, members, sections, loads, and relationships should remain connected as the model moves through the engineering workflow.
That is the bigger idea behind Linkoteq Structural Core:
Create the engineering information once, then build modelling, analysis, design, and documentation workflows around the same structural model.
Where are we today?
Structural Core v0.6 is another step toward that goal. It establishes a stronger common model for future Linkoteq engineering tools while maintaining backward compatibility with the previous v0.5 structure.
There is still significant engineering work ahead, particularly validation of model transfers, units, releases, loads, analysis assumptions, and design results.
The goal is not to replace engineering judgment.
The goal is to give engineers better-connected tools so they can spend less effort transferring information and more effort actually engineering.
Where Linkoteq is heading
Our vision is an accessible online structural engineering environment where structural engineers, architects, and project teams can move from early structural concepts toward increasingly detailed engineering using connected information.
Model it. Analyze it. Check it. Improve it. Keep it connected.