User Guide

Tutorial 2 - Modifying
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Click Apply and then click on the three columns in the front; the same columns
that we just connected with beams. New nodes will appear on the upper half of
the columns between the two beams.
Press Ctrl-D to recall the last dialog, then click on the Draw Members tab.
Choose Cold Formed for your material type and select “Girt” for your Section
Set. Change the end releases to Pinned at Both Ends.
We also want the cold formed members to be turned so that their strong axis
resists wind load. We will specify the rotation before we draw them.
Specify “90” as the Rotate Angle on the bottom right as shown in the previous
figure. Click Apply and we are ready to draw.
Click from left to right on the three new nodes circled in the figure below: