Main Menus

The main menus at the top of the screen will aid with the design of the steel sections and other additional checks, viewing and printing of the output, selection of design codes and some additional options as outlined below.


	Takes you to the Automatic Design tab at the bottom of the screen.
	Takes you to the section size droplist at the bottom of the screen.
	Takes you to the haunch dimensions at the bottom of the screen.
	Takes you to the Auto Check view at the bottom of the screen.
	Takes you to the Sway Stability check at the bottom of the screen.
	Takes you to the Snap Through Stability check at the bottom of the screen.
	Takes you to the Fire Boundary check at the bottom of the screen.
	Takes you to the Nodal Displacements at the bottom of the screen.
	Takes you to the Lateral and Torsional Restraints at the bottom of the screen.
	Takes you to the Scan for Failures option.
	Takes you to the MasterPort editing screen.


	Insert the project title and job refs for printing.
	Print the current member design calcs and graphics.
	Print the frame geometry.
	Print the frame data text file.
	View the analysis results in tabular format.
	Print the analysis results in tabular format.
	View/print the analysis results in graphical format.
	Print all or user selected design calcs.
	Print the sway, snap through and fire boundary checks.


	Export the current member design calcs and graphics to Word.
	Export all or user selected design calcs to Word.
	Export the sway, snap through and fire boundary checks to Word.


	Use BS 5950 for steel design.
	Use EC3 for steel design.
	Use ChiLT.mod when using EC3.
	Select which National Annex to use.
	Use SABS 0162 for steel design (South African code).
	Use SANS 10162 for steel design (South African code).
	Use Annex I from BS 5950:2000 for stocky members.
	Use SCI P355 for web openings in steel design.


	Takes you to the graphical analysis output.
	Assumes point of contraflexure to be a restraint point.
	Checks supermembers are aligned (straight).
	Carries out an elastic-plastic analysis.
	Shows the bending moment diagram on the compression side.
	Opens the Deflection Limits table.
	Use nominal moments as minimum in column design.
	Uses newer plastic analysis method.
	Consider the frame as braced in SANS design code.
	Ignore slenderness ratio limits (no longer a code requirement.)


	Open the steel design help manual.
	Open tutorials on MasterFrame,
	Steel design, Connections design
	and Truss design.

If you have switched off the Simplified Interface in the editing end of the program prior to going into the design end, then the Integrated Design menu will also appear in the main menus at the top of the screen. These options will allow you to add design briefs to members of the frame since the automatic application of briefs when the simplified interface is on, is no longer available with it off.


	Opens up the Deflection Limits table.
	Allows filtering of sections for depth, width and thickness.
	Displays the critical and non-critical cases based on the current design briefs.
	Allows you to differentiate between design and deflection load cases.
	Adds an AutoCheck - Group Check.
	Apply an Axially Loaded Members with Moments design brief.
	Apply an Appendix-G stability check to a member.
	Takes you into the automatic design area.
	Apply an Elastic Critical Load Factor check to the frame.