Concrete settings (structure)

There is brand new Concrete settings (structure) setup for concrete members which contains all needed settings coming from code or calculation routines. The global settings located in Concrete settings (structure) are by default valid for all members in the project, unless they are overwritten by Settings per member - 1D member data. A lot of input parameters and calculation settings are collected here, reflecting the complexity of the Eurocode.

Concrete settings dialogue

This dialogue is split into two main parts. The left part contains the values themselves and right side includes explanatory figure with description of the value. Additionally there are several buttons for search, filtering, mode selection and default settings.

Concrete settings dialogue is presented as a kind of table with 9 columns (description, symbol, value, default, unit, chapter, code, structure and check type). Each column has enabled possibility for search. User can easily start typing at the first row of column and see intermediate output of the search.

To find all items related to any chapter (like Cover, ULS ...) use search in column Check type

Find

There's also a 'Find' function, where the user can insert a search term. It brings some kind of filtering of items in the setup. This function enables searching the defined value anywhere in the Concrete setting dialogue

View

Furthermore, very useful new thing is possibility of switch type of view of items of setup - concrete commands view, code chapter view or list view.

Concrete commands view

The first view is according to commands (Concrete commands view) used for design and check. It shows concrete settings in blocks according their usage in commands.

Code chapters view

Another view is based on numbering from design code as mentioned on the following figure.

List view

The last predefined view is the List view where all items are listed and could be alphabetically sorted.

User defined views

Additionally, the User has also possibility to create his own view based on filtered items and use them for quick changes later on. User defined view can be crated using Save actual view and definition of the name.

User views does not save actual values in setting, it saves only filtered items.

Afterwards, this view is possible to select in User item. This user view is possible to save or import from the file using Save views into file, and Import views from file.

There is possibility to see only changed items using option Show only changed items.

Filters

The user can choose between a Standard or Advanced level, which filters the amount of data. The example is visible on group Solver settings - General.

Standard view

Advanced view

Default

Finally, when the user wants go back to predefined values it is possible to easily press button default and all settings are restored.