User Guide

Tutorial 1 - Modeling
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Click on the Window menu.
The top of the Window menu presents some arrangement and tiling options that
we will get to later. At the bottom of the menu the open windows are listed.
Notice that they are numbered in the order that we opened them starting with the
Model View and ending with the Member Section Sets we just finished. The
current window has a checkmark next to it. We can choose any of the open
windows from this list at any time. So if you hide a window or just want to see
what is already open you can always come here.
Now select the Model View by clicking on “1: Model View”.
The Model View comes to the front of the workspace and the spreadsheets are no
longer visible. They are still open however but are behind the larger model view
window.
You can also recall open windows the same way that you originally opened them
whether it was with a menu or a toolbar button.
As an example, click on the
button in the Data Entry Toolbar.
This window was already open and it was brought to where you can work with it.
You may close windows either by clicking the close
button or by pressing the
Ctrl and F4 buttons simultaneously.
Press Ctrl-F4 to close the Sections spreadsheet.
Back in the model view our cursor is still which indicates that we are still in
drawing mode. RISA-3D remembers what mode you are in for all the open
windows. We need to draw the crossbeam but we are still set up for drawing web
members however because that is what we were doing when we left the model
view.
Press the key combination “CTRL-D” to recall the Member Properties dialog.
We want to draw the crossbeam, so click to change the material back to
concrete. Click on to bypass the section sets and assign an
explicit shape for this new member. Then click on the white box under Start
Shape and type the following: