Drawing Options

The Drawing options area provides options to show a graphical summary of the design results. The summary results can be displayed for reinforcement areas provided, design utilization or unity ratios and design forces from the FE analysis. The graphical results can be shown for a specific design zone, for all the design zones of a specific type, or for all design zones.

The basic options for results display are the same for each of the Basic Rebar, Peak, Strip and Punching zones. When in the Peak, Strip or Punching shear menus, the Drawing Options will include options to control the section diagrams for these reinforcement zones while the strip zones also includes an option to display local FE surface nodal coordinates to assist with defining the start and end coordinates.

The layout of the area when in the Basic Rebar menu option is shown below.

The drawing options are:

Rebar areas - shows the current reinforcement areas

Unity - displays the current design utilization or unity ratio

Force/Capacity - displays the FE analysis results

Each drawing option is selected using the radio buttons. For each option, the output to show is then selected from the drop down selection.

For each output option, the results can be displayed for the following options:

Selected - displays the results for the currently selected rebar zone

All sets - displays the results for all sets in the current selected Rebar Type e.g. in the basic rebar this option will display all basic rebar zones

All - displays for all rebar zones currently created in the model regardless of zone or type.

In both the Peak and Strip reinforcement areas, display options are available to control the section diagrams associated with these rebar zones. The layout of the Drawing Option are when these options are displayed is shown below.

The scale of the section diagram is adjusting using the drop down menu. The section diagrams are turned on/off using the Draw checkbox. Checking the Values checkbox will include results values in the section diagrams.

Rebar Areas

The Rebar Areas display uses colour coding to indicate the reinforcement in directions 1 or 2 for the top or bottom reinforcement. A typical layout of results is shown below.

Unity

The design unity values displays the ratio of the design forces to the design capacity for the selected results. This graphical output options are:

None - no results are displayed

Mr Unity Hog xx - shows the maximum unity ratio for the hogging moments in the xx direction

Mr Unity Hog yy - shows the maximum unity ratio for the hogging moments in the yy direction

Mr Unity Hog max - shows the maximum unity ratio for the hogging moments in the either the x- or y-directions

Mr Unity Sag xx - shows the maximum unity ratio for the sagging moments in the xx direction

Mr Unity Sag yy - shows the maximum unity ratio for the sagging moments in the yy direction

Mr Unity Sag max - shows the maximum unity ratio for the sagging moments in the either the x- or y-directions

If modification are made to the design, the graphics can be updated using the  icon. Peak values can be indicated in the graphical window by check the Draw Values checkbox.

A typical screen layout with the Mt Unity Hog max results displayed is shown below.

Force/Capacity

The Force/Capacity display options allows a number of the FE analysis results to be viewed while in the slab design module. The available results are:

Mx Top (Wood Armer)

My Top (Wood Armer)

Mx Bot (Wood Armer)

My Bot (Wood Armer)

As req Top xx

As req Top yy

As req Bot xx

As req Bot yy

As prov Top xx

As prov Top yy

As prov Bot xx

As prov Bot yy

Mr Hog xx

Mr Hog yy

Mr Sag xx

Mr Sag yy

If modification are made to the design, the graphics can be updated using the  icon. Peak values can be indicated in the graphical window by check the Draw Values checkbox.