Attributes

Introduction

The attribute is an object in SCIA Engineer. It can display some additional information about members. It can be edited in the Property window in the same way as other properties.

We have two different kinds of attributes.

• User defined attributes

• Previous member data – now converted to attributes

When the user selects a member with an attribute, then the attribute is always displayed in the properties. It is not possible to select a member without attributes when any attributes are connected to the member.

There is a second tab in the properties when the member contains an attribute. This second tab displays the properties of the attribute.

The user has also the possibility to select each attribute separately by selecting it by its label.

Previously Member Data - now Attributes

There are Member data in SCIA Engineer which can be considered as attributes already – Concrete member data, Steel member data, Fire resistance and more.

Those Member data which do not have special drawings of their flags have been already converted to attributes. Their behavior is the same as for attributes.

View flags for previous Member data stay the same – see example of concrete Member data:

The attributes that were Member data previously have the same dialogues and same properties. Only their displaying is different from now on.

Example of converted Member data: Concrete member data, Steel member data, AMRD, Voided slabs, Fire resistance, Punching in node (Punching data).

If the converted Member data are inserted to the project then they can be inserted to a new member in the same way as it is possible for user defined attributes.

Displaying of Attributes

Attributes are displayed in tooltips and in Labels.

Attributes can be selected one by one or all together. One by one selection is by clicking the mouse on their description in label, All together are selected by clicking on the label itself.

The only exception is when the Attributes are not displayed – i.e. attributes have been inserted on non-geometrical objects (loads, foundation blocks, openings …).

Displaying of tooltips can be disabled in View parameters settings.

When the project contains at least one attribute, then a new tab in the view flags appears – Attributes. Here the user can switch the user-defined attributes on or off.

Display

This checkbox tells whether the attribute should be displayed in the whole window

Name of type

Displays the Name of the attribute (in the Attribute definition – the row Type name)

Values

Are set in the Attribute definition – Label setup

Label setup in the attribute definition

Here the user can define which values will be used for creating of label with Values.

Text size, fonts, colour, ...

Change of the size of the Label for Attributes can be set in dialogue Setup->Fonts->Attributes.

Change of the colour of the Label for Attributes can be set in dialogue Setup->Colours/Lines->Attributes.