Navigating Design Briefs

Once design briefs have been assigned to members within a model, there are a number of ways in which it is possible to navigate through the design briefs and hence review the design results for the model.

Design Brief Dropdown

In the Section Auto Design tab, at the left hand side of the pane, the Design brief drop down allows access to any of the design briefs created and appended to a member of the model. To expand the drop down, use the mouse cursor to click on the drop down itself. The layout of the screen with the expanded design brief drop down is shown below. A brief is selected using the mouse.

Alternatively, the drop down can be navigated using the sort buttons , or by using the

search buttons.

When a design brief is displayed, the calculations in the design pane will update to reflect the design results for the selected member and the member itself will highlight in the graphics window.

Graphical Selection

On larger models, it may be time consuming to use the sort buttons to find the brief on any particular member, or it may be difficult to know which member a brief title is referring to. Therefore, it is also possible to display the design brief for a member by selecting the member itself in the graphics window. This can be done using the mouse cursor; move the mouse cursor over the member and left-click. To assist with locating a member in a model, the graphics navigation tools of Masterframe can be used to filter the view in the graphics window. Alternatively, if member viewing groups have been created within Masterframe, these groups can also be selected using the

icons located at the bottom of the main window. The drop down allows the view to be amended be selecting the member viewing groups from the drop down. Additionally, the view can be filters using the

icons. Hover over each icon to get a tool-tip which explains each of these filters.

When searching graphically for a design brief, ensure that the icon is highlighter in the graphical pane.