The example of creating IDEA Connection project IOM locally is in the project IOM.SteelFrameDesktop

The axample how to generate IOM for a steel frame and including geometry of connections is in IOM.GeneratorExample. Running this example requires IDEA StatiCa v 20.0 (or higher) on an user’s PC. Free trial version version can be obtained here.

IdeaStatiCa.Plugin includes classes which allows communication and controlling IDEA StatiCa applications and its provides services to other applications. IdeaStatiCa.Plugin is also distributed as nuget package

			// create IOM and results
			OpenModel example = SteelFrameExample.CreateIOM();
			OpenModelResult result = Helpers.GetResults();

			string iomFileName = "example.xml";
			string iomResFileName = "example.xmlR";

			// save to the files
			example.SaveToXmlFile(iomFileName);
			result.SaveToXmlFile(iomResFileName);

The instance of the class ConnHiddenClientFactory is responsible for creating the instance of ConnectionHiddenCheckClient whic communicates with the local installation of Idea StatiCa. The path to the installation directory is passed in the constructor of ConnHiddenClientFactory

			IdeaInstallDir = IOM.SteelFrameDesktop.Properties.Settings.Default.IdeaInstallDir;
			Console.WriteLine("IDEA StatiCa installation directory is '{0}'", IdeaInstallDir);

			ConnectionHiddenCheckClient calcFactory = new ConnHiddenClientFactory(IdeaInstallDir);

The installation directory of Idea StatiCa v 20.0 (or higher) is set in the project setting of IOM.SteelFrameDesktop. Idea Connection project is created by calling method CreateConProjFromIOM

				client.CreateConProjFromIOM(iomFileName, iomResFileName, fileConnFileNameFromLocal);
				Console.WriteLine("Generated project was saved to the file '{0}'", fileConnFileNameFromLocal);