Before commencing the design you should take a moment to ensure design options and autodesign settings are set as required:
If working to either the Eurocode or US headcode, you may also want to introduce more/less conservatism to the design process by specifying user defined utilation ratios:
Having set the properties and options as required you can then proceed to:
- Choose an appropriate combined analysis and member design command to rapidly assess all steel members and/or concrete members/walls in your model in a single pass.
- Alternatively, for some models you may find it more efficient to run an analysis in the first instance and then selectively design the model - in this way you can choose to design or check:
- individual members
- selected members
- individual concrete members interactively
- all members in a level
- all members in a frame
- all members in a slope
- all members of a particular secion or type
- all members in a group
- all members in a sub structure
- all members in the model
Note: Additional considerations may be necessary when designing members and walls for seismic analysis, see
Seismic design methods in the Seismic analysis and design handbook.
