User Guide

Tutorial 4 – Solving & Results
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Scroll down to view code check information and you will see the code check
value along with the controlling equation and all of the design values. Finally,
close the detail report by clicking the button.
You may also open the member detail report by clicking on a member in the
model view.
On the Selection Toolbar click the Member Detail button.
The mouse cursor will change to and you may now click on any member to
open the report.
Try clicking on a few members; you may even open multiple reports at one time.
You may also open the detail report when reviewing the spreadsheets.
Select the Results menu and then click on Members Design Results. Click on
the Hot Rolled, Cold Formed or Wood tabs in the spreadsheet. Now click on this
button on the Window Toolbar: .
We are finished with the detail reports and will now look at plate results.
Select Single View from the Window menu.
Plotting Plate Results
Turn off the joint labels by clicking . Once again click on . Select the
Plates tab.
Notice that there is a Contours option beneath Wireframe and also beneath
Color Filled. These options control how results contours are displayed. By
“contour” we mean that the solution results may be shown graphically on the
plates via color-coding, where different colors represent different magnitudes for
the particular result being “contoured”. The contours may be drawn as either
lines or as color filled areas.
Half way down there is a section labeled Contouring Control. These options
control the value that is to be contoured. You can contour any of these results by
just clicking on the appropriate button in this list. Let’s give it a try. First, we
will do a line contour.
Click the Contours option beneath the Wireframe option so that the box is
checked. Now go down to the Contouring Control section and choose Mx from
the Value list.