User Guide

Tutorial 1 - Modeling
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The members should now be displayed in color. The legend is displayed in the
upper right hand corner of the model view to tell you what the colors mean. We
haven’t used any section sets yet, but that is about to change. The “na” color used
for our columns indicates that they were not defined with section sets.
Our columns are defined, now lets do the wood truss. Since these members are
going to be different we will use a different Material Type.
Click on the button to start drawing again and we see the Member Properties
dialog again.
The Section Set field is simply the label that refers to the cross-sectional
properties to be used for the members. We will place the members in the sets as
we build the model and define the properties later on.
Select NDS Wood and then click on to assign a section set for
our new members.
Notice how the currently selected Section Set now reads “NDS1”. The drop
down list for Section Sets and Material automatically changed when we selected
NDS Wood for our material type. The program knows that we have selected our
Material Type. It has, therefore, adjusted the other menus and entries to be
consistent with our material choice.
The dialog should look like this:
Click Apply to start drawing again and we are back at the model view.