User Guide

RISA-3D User’s Guide
Version 5.0
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Click anywhere in the X-coordinate column.
Click on the Window Toolbar, select “Sort Low to High” and click OK.
The joints are now sorted in ascending X coordinate order. Now lets add a Z-
coordinate sort.
Click in the Z coordinate column. Click again and click OK.
Last we will sort on the Y-coordinate.
Click in the Y coordinate column. Click again and click OK.
So now we have the joints in ascending Y coordinate order, and at each Y
coordinate level, they are further sorted in ascending Z and X coordinate order.
Notice that the labels stayed with their assigned joints and the model plot looks
exactly the same.
Now select Relabel Joints from the Tools menu. Click OK.
The joints have been relabeled and this can be seen in the model view window as
the joints are now labeled from the bottom up.
Now let’s sort our members as well.
Click again and select “Members Input” and then click OK.
This presents all of the spreadsheets that contribute to the definition of members.
The Members spreadsheet is located in the lower left corner. We will use this to
sort the members first by their I-Joint and then the section set.
Click anywhere in the I-Joint column and click . With “Low to High” as the
sort option click OK.
Click anywhere in the Section / Shape column and click . Choose “Low to
High” as the sort option and click OK.
Again the member labels remain with the same members and the view has not
been affected by the sort because nothing has actually changed other than how the
members are arranged in the spreadsheet.
Now select Relabel Members from the Tools menu. Click OK.
This sorts our beams by section, making them easier to identify and work with in
our next operation, which is assigning parameters for steel and wood design.
This concludes Tutorial 2. The next tutorial teaches you how to load the model.
If you wish to stop and do tutorial 3 later, select Exit from the File menu.
Otherwise continue on and open the file at the beginning of Tutorial 3.