Introduction

What is Pangolin?

Pangolin is a tool used to create detailed and complex steel structural models. It allows users to define elements such as beam haunches, configurable cold-formed sections with stiffeners, and surface loads that are distributed onto beams through load transfer surfaces. Pangolin also supports defining load combinations from individual load cases.

Once the model is created, it can be saved for later use or sent directly to Consteel for analysis using Consteel’s specialized calculations. The latest version of Pangolin can process analysis and design results from Consteel, including first and second order analysis, buckling analysis, and strength and buckling checks.

The currently sponsored objects can be studied in the following chapters.