Buildings and Civil Structures Design

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Buildings and Civil Structures Design Access to Content

User Interface

Action Bar

Steel Section

Steel Detailing Section

Concrete Section

Reinforcement

Wireframe and Surface Section

Volume Section

Review Section

Component Section

Tools Section

Tools Section: Primary Area

Tools Section: First Secondary Area

Tools Section: Second Secondary Area

Standard Area

Context Toolbars

The Tree

Customizing Preferences

Keyboard Shortcuts

Offline Mode

About Saving

Start a Building Project

About Starting a Building Project

Creating a New Building Project

About Searching

Using the View Selector

Create a Mass

About Creating a Mass

Creating a Mass

Mass Options

Create a Sketch

Why Create a Sketch?

Using Sketcher

Sketch from DWG

Creating a Sketch from a Space

Creating a Sketch from a Story

Creating Buildings from Parameters, Reference Planes, or a Spreadsheet

Showing or Hiding Spaces

Navigating and Viewing a Project

About Navigation and Viewing Commands

Activating a Story

Deactivating a Story

Showing or Hiding the Building

Displaying Analytical Representation

Displaying Orphans

Using the Building Inspector to Show or Hide Structure

Stories and Foundation

Adding a Story Above

Adding a Story Below

Adding the Foundation

Changing Story Height

Updating the Building Model

About Updating

Updating

Deleting

Changing Units

Structural Grid and Grid Labels

About Structural Grids

Creating a Building Structural Grid

Selecting Reference Planes for a Building Grid: Example

Creating a Reference Plane Grid

Adding Grid Labels

Turning Pop-up Grid Labels On or Off

Creating Labels on Wires

Creating Grid Outputs

Structural Members

About Structural Members

About Diagrids

Tips and Tricks When Creating Structural Members

Columns

About Columns

Adding a Cast Column

Cast Column Options

Adding a Catalog Column

Catalog Column Options

Creating Catalog Column User Pattern

Creating Cast Column User Pattern

Beams

About Beams

Adding a Cast Beam

Cast Beam Options

Adding a Catalog Beam

Catalog Beam Options

Adding a Cast Beam Pattern

Adding a Catalog Beam Pattern

Creating Catalog Beam User Pattern

Creating Cast Beam User Pattern

Braces

About Braces

Adding a Cast Brace

Adding a Catalog Brace

Creating a Bar Joist Pattern

Creating a Bar Joist

Creating Grid-Driven Plates

Creating a Cast Corbel

Creating Plate User Pattern

Adding Steel Detailing Features

Creating a Member Sketch

Splitting a Catalog Member

Using a Cope Tool

Creating a Base Plate

Creating Stiffeners

Creating a Member-Driven Plate

Creating a Clip Angle

Creating Holes

Footings, Piers, and Piles

About Footings

Adding an Isolated Footing

Adding a Strip Footing

Adding a User Defined Footing

About Piers

About Piles

Adding a Pile Arrangement

Editing Members and Footings

About Editing Structural Members and Footings

Editing Members and Footings

Editing Individual Piles

Reinforcements

About Rebar Creation

About the Rebar Creation Assistant

Creating a Rebar

Performing General Transformations

Adding Couplers on Rebars

Creating Rebar Groups in Sketch Mode

Running an Interference Analysis

Generating a Rebar Report

Shafts and Elevators

Creating a Shaft

Shaft Options

Creating an Elevator Shaft

Creating a Rectangular Space, Shaft, or Elevator

Changing Rectangular Space, Shaft, and Elevator Dimensions

Walls, Slabs, and Pits

Adding a Wall

Wall Options

Wall Extraction

About Extracting Walls

Extracting Walls

Replacing Missing Walls

Wall Thickness

About Wall Thickness

Changing Wall Thickness

Adding a Slab

Slab Options

Creating Slab Openings

Creating a Pit

Summarizing Data - The Structure Estimator

About the Structure Estimator

Displaying the Structure Estimator

Structure Estimator Options

Generating and Importing

Generate 2D Views

About Generating Two-Dimensional Plans

Generating 2D Views to use in CATIA Drafting

Opening a Drawing in Drafting

Generate BIM Product Structure

Generating BIM Product Structure and IFC

Generate BIM Product Structure Options

Changing Attributes and Order for Generate BIM Product Structure

Adding a Building in Existing Product Structure

Exporting to SDNF

SDNF Export Options

About Generating a Mesh Simulation Model for SIMULIA

Generating a Mesh Simulation Model

Generating 3D Elements from 2D Sketches

Creating Spaces from a Floor Plan

Creating Shafts from a Floor Plan

Creating Elevators from a Floor Plan

Creating Walls from a Floor Plan Sketch

Creating Column Reservations from a Floor Plan

Creating Openings from a Floor Plan Sketch

BIM Attributes, Construction Classification Standards, and Attribute Spreadsheets

Why Specify and Review BIM attributes?

About Construction Classification Standards

Adding and Editing Object Attributes

Searching for Objects

Copying BIM attribute Extensions

Analyzing BIM Attributes

Creating, Updating, and Using a Link Spreadsheet