/// <summary>
/// Create a new (or update an existing) section family in the model
/// </summary>
/// <param name="profile">The section profile to assign to the new property.</param>
/// <param name="exInfo">Optional. The execution information of the current action.
/// If an object has been created previously with matching execution information then
/// instead of creating a new item this previous one will be updated and returned instead.
/// This enables this method to be used parametrically.</param>
/// <returns>The created or updated section family</returns>
public SectionFamily SectionFamily(SectionProfile profile, ExecutionInfo exInfo = null)
{
SectionFamily result = new SectionFamily();
result = Model.History.Update(exInfo, result);
result.Profile = profile;
if (result.Name == null)
{
result.Name = Model.Families.NextAvailableName("Section", result, true);
}
Model.Add(result);
return(result);
}
/// <summary>
/// Change the type of profile of this section, copying across as much data as possible
/// </summary>
/// <typeparam name="TProfile">The type of the new profile</typeparam>
/// <returns>The </returns>
public TProfile ChangeProfileType <TProfile>() where TProfile : SectionProfile, new()
{
SectionProfile oldProfile = Profile;
TProfile newProfile = new TProfile();
if (oldProfile != null)
{
newProfile.CopyFieldsFrom(oldProfile);
}
newProfile.CatalogueName = null;
Profile = newProfile;
return(newProfile);
}
/// Get the total cross-sectional area of a specified material within this section.
/// If no material is specified, will return the total cross-sectional area regardless
/// of material.
/// </summary>
/// <param name="material">The material to calculate the cross-sectional area of</param>
/// <returns></returns>
public double GetArea(Material material = null)
{
double result = 0;
SectionProfileCollection profiles = Profiles;
for (int i = 0; i < profiles.Count; i++)
{
SectionProfile profile = profiles[i];
if (material == null || profile.Material == material)
{
result += profile.Area;
}
// TODO: Subtract area of embedded sections & reinforcement
}
return(result);
}
/// <summary>
/// Change the type of profile of this section, copying across as much data as possible
/// </summary>
/// <param name="newType">The type of the new profile. Must be a non-abstract subtype of SectionProfile</param>
/// <returns></returns>
public SectionProfile ChangeProfieType(Type newType)
{
SectionProfile oldProfile = Profile;
Assembly assembly = Assembly.Load(newType.Assembly.FullName);
SectionProfile newProfile = assembly.CreateInstance(newType.FullName) as SectionProfile;
if (newProfile != null)
{
if (oldProfile != null)
{
newProfile.CopyPropertiesFrom(oldProfile);
}
newProfile.CatalogueName = null;
Profile = newProfile;
}
return(newProfile);
}
/// <summary>
/// Create a new SectionProfile based on a string description.
/// </summary>
/// <param name="description"></param>
/// <param name="catalogue"></param>
/// <returns></returns>
public static SectionProfile FromDescription(string description, SectionProfileLibrary catalogue = null)
{
if (catalogue != null)
{
// Check in catalogue:
SectionProfile profile = catalogue.GetByCatalogueName(description);
if (profile != null)
{
return(profile.Duplicate());
}
}
string[] tokens = description.Split(' ');
if (tokens.Length > 1)
{
switch (tokens[0].Trim().ToUpper())
{
case "I":
return(new SymmetricIProfile(tokens[1]));
case "T":
return(new TProfile(tokens[1]));
case "A":
return(new AngleProfile(tokens[1]));
case "CIRC":
return(new CircularProfile(tokens[1]));
case "CHS":
return(new CircularHollowProfile(tokens[1]));
case "RECT":
return(new RectangularProfile(tokens[1]));
case "RHS":
return(new RectangularProfile(tokens[1]));
}
throw new NotImplementedException("The specified section profile description could not be parsed successfully."); //If we're here, we haven't caught the case
}
return(null);
}
/// <summary>
/// Notify this section that one of its constutuent profiles has been modified
/// </summary>
/// <param name="profile"></param>
internal void NotifyProfileChanged(SectionProfile profile)
{
NotifyPropertyChanged("Profile");
NotifyPropertyChanged("Profiles");
}
/// <summary>
/// Initialises a section property with the given name and profile
/// </summary>
/// <param name="name"></param>
/// <param name="profile"></param>
public SectionFamily(string name, SectionProfile profile)
{
Name = name;
Profile = profile;
}
/// <summary>
/// Initialises a section property with the given profile
/// </summary>
/// <param name="profile"></param>
public SectionFamily(SectionProfile profile)
{
Profile = profile;
}