Propuesta N° 3

3.1. Object Inspector Description

Inspector is a tool enabling management of elements (objects) included in a project created in

AutoCAD® Structural Detailing. By standard, the Inspector dialog displays besides the

viewer (of graphic model definition), in the left-hand side of the program window. The width of the dialog is adjustable to accommodate space for the graphic model definition field. The most important tasks carried out in the Inspector include:

• Presentation of project contents

• Presentation of generated views out of which printouts can be composed • Change of scale of the general view in which objects will be created • Change of view scales

• Change of name • Deletion of views

• Filtering of elements (objects) in drawings

• Generation and management of the project drawing documentation. The Object Inspector dialog is divided into three parts:

• Options for object filtering

• Four tabs containing lists (sets) of project elements depending on the design stage (modeling / positions / printouts)

• The table presenting properties of selected objects.

The top of the dialog includes options for filtering objects in drawings. A defined filter is identified by the name presented in the filter selection list in the Object Inspector dialog as shown below.

The following buttons are provided under the selection list:

• Show - clicking this button displays selected elements (e.g. radial distributions or bar descriptions) in the drawing.

• Hide - clicking this button hides selected elements (e.g. radial distributions or bar descriptions) in the drawing.

• Select - clicking this button selects chosen elements (e.g. radial distributions or bar descriptions) in the drawing.

Clicking in the Object Inspector dialog opens the Filter management dialog as shown

The dialog includes all defined filters and the following buttons:

• Show, Hide, Select - they work the same as in the Object Inspector dialog (see the description above)

• Unselect - clicking this button switches off selection of chosen elements (e.g. radial distributions or bar descriptions) in the drawing.

• Select All / Unselect All - clicking this button selects / switches off selection of all elements (filters) provided on the list

• New, Edit, Delete – these options are not available in the current program version.

3.2. Model

The Model tab provides a list of defined elements (levels, groups of elements as well as elements belonging to levels and groups) that describe the division of reinforcing bars into structural elements such as a beam, a column, a spread footing, etc. A structure of user- defined levels, groups and elements is shown in the form of a tree is shown below.

You can update, delete, and move individual components using the mouse; all these operations will result in updating the data contained in the Element manager dialog. The context menu available on the Model tab holds the following commands:

- for a level and a group:

1. Add element – enables adding a new element to a selected group (the New

element dialog opens on the screen then)

2. Add group (the option is accessible only for a level) – enables adding a new group to a selected level

3. Steel table – generates a reinforcement table with division into elements (the table works for multiselection)

4. Delete – deletes a level or a group; if a level containing components is deleted, then the components will remain (as if the level had never been created); if a group containing elements is deleted, then these elements can be assigned to a level or be left without being assigned.

- for an element:

1. Show element – zooms in a drawing to show all the components of the drawing 2. Steel table - generates a reinforcement

table with division into elements (the table works for multiselection)

3. Column table - generates a reinforcement table for columns imported from Revit 4. Beam table - generates a reinforcement

table for beams imported from Revit 5. Add to element – switches to the selection

mode that enables choosing objects to be added to a selected element (once they are selected the Element manager dialog box opens on the screen)

6. Delete – deletes an element from the list (assignment of objects to an element is deleted).

In AutoCAD® Structural Detailing - Reinforcement there is not a pre-determined order for creating ‘elements’. The operation that is performed first depends on the user’s choice and habits; elements can be created after drawing reinforcement of all elements of a structure (all at a time), or created one by one while drawing.

If additional reinforcement is added to an existing element, then it is necessary to use the context menu command Add to element available for the element.

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3.3. Positions

The Positions tab presents a list of defined views containing name, scale and name of the printout layout including a given view as shown below.

The icon of a document included on the list is presented as follows:

• - the document has been read from Autodesk Robot Structural Analysis.

• in yellow - the document is active on the edition layout; moreover, there may exist

views for a document, presented as: – active view

– inactive view.

If the icon of a view provided on the list is shown in bold, it means that it is an active view. Access the context menu by right-clicking the Positions tab. The menu contains several options which allow performing operations on selected positions:

• Change name - choosing this command enables changing the name of a highlighted view (the name is entered to the command line)

• Activate - choosing this command activates the selected drawing

• Add to current printout - selecting this command adds a view with selected drawing to the current printout

• Add to current printout as block - selecting this command adds a view with selected drawing in form of block to the current printout.

Arranging printouts by means of the blocks enables to create printout layouts with a large number of elements. It is possible to modify the elements presented in a block on a model only and the modification will be updated after moving on to the drawing area. It is not possible to modify elements by the means of the block edition.

• Show view - this option allows for presentation of the selected view

3.4. Structural Detailing Center

This Structural Detailing Center tab enables copying settings (styles) between projects.

Click the File button and select a file with an earlier-saved project, the Inspector dialog displays all the defined styles that may be used in the current project.

After highlighting a selected style, right-click the Add command, to add the style to the styles available in the current project.

3.5. Printouts

The Printouts tab enables management of printouts in AutoCAD® Structural Detailing; it presents the list of all printouts defined in the AutoCAD® Structural Detailing project. Printouts are presented together with a set of views. The printout list contains all the printouts, even those which do not include any views. The structure of user-defined printouts and views is shown in a form of a tree. Due to logical reasons, views are placed in a printout, however, for the user’s convenience, the tree also includes an intermediate level, so that it is obvious to which document given views belong. If the printout layout is active, then the icon of a printout corresponding to the active printout layout is presented in red color.

Printouts provided on the list are selected by selecting them (take note that only elements of one printout may be selected at a time - it is impossible to select elements of two different printouts). Selection of the printout in the dialog is synchronized with the graphic editor - an appropriate drawing displays on the screen.

Access the context menu by right-clicking the Printouts tab. The menu contains several options for performing operations on selected printouts:

• Change name - choosing this command enables changing the name of a highlighted printout (the name is entered to the command line)

• Delete - choosing this command results in removal of selected printouts from a project • Activate - choosing this command causes the highlighted printout to become active

• Unload printout - choosing this command causes the selected printout to be excluded from the list of available printouts

• Save printout - choosing this command enables saving the selected printout as a *.dwg file

• Save all printouts - choosing this command enables saving all the printouts in a *.dwg file • Add printout - selecting this command adds an empty printout to the project (the name is

entered to the command line).