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Hello,
Our purpose is to model the mat foundation (not shallow foundation) with horizontal sliding by using PySimple2 and TzSimple2 elements in Master.tcl file.

We will not use ShallowFoundationGen command directly. Any thoughts?

Could we source PySimple2 and TzSimple2, which is developed/modified by Prishati Raychowdhury (UCSD), in Master.tcl file without using ShallowFoundationGen command? Since we would like to build the foundation models ourself without using the ShalllowFoundationGen commnad. We only need to use PySimpl...

Thanks for the advice. I will make an attempt at it.

Hello, I am using this command for the first time. Is ShaollowFoundationGen command only used to model isolated shallow foundations or can it also be applied to a mat foundation, such as the one in the following paper: IMPACT OF FOUNDATION MODELING ON THE ACCURACY OF RESPONSE HISTORY ANALYSIS OF A T...

Thank you for your help! I changed the working directory and it worked.

I am having the same issue and i cannot even run the command source without getting an error for the directory. Any help is appreciated.