Normally the user must read in these data him-/herself via a geoinformation system or digitise them on-screen (e.g. via Structure New Points on the basis of a Tiff-file).

In chapter "SPRING Menues - Structure"possibilities of creating and importing structures are described in detail.

The necessary model structure data are already digitized and are available in the already downloaded directory under .…/Tutorial_2D_bsp_files/s1_daten1.str. Via Structure Import… (file selection) *.str the file "s1_daten1.str" can be read.

 

Imported structures of the file s1_daten1.str

 

If it does not yet contain any nodes or elements, the project must be saved and opened again, before the structures can be displayed.

After activating the display under View Structures All or pressing the corresponding button

(), the following figure appears:

 

Existing structure data

 

The next step is modifying structures