General Foundations
2.2 Global Data
2.2.1 Project Info
Used to add general info about a project, create a revision history for a project, and access view and scaling controls. The Project Info group is active by default when you open a new or existing project.
Use of the Project Info group is optional. It is provided for your convenience.
You can store relevant general information regarding a project and also create a revision history. Later on, you can instruct STAAD.foundation to display this information in reports and drawings.
The Project Info group contains the following elements:
Name Description Same Effect as
Selecting General
Infor-mation
Opens the General Infor-mation form in the Data Input pane, which is used to store general project information used in your organization.
Review History Opens the Review History form in the Data Input pane, which is used to keep track of the progress of a project.
Modeling View Options
Opens the Modeling View Options form in the data input pane, which is used to control graphics display by toggling the display of several model elements.
Opens the Scale Setup form in the data input pane, which is used to control the
Scale in the Standard tool-bar
Project Info group items
Name Description Same Effect as Selecting scale at which
dis-placements, loads, and drawing entities like foot-ings and piles are displayed on the model.
General Information form
Used to store general information regarding a project. The information you input in the General Information form can later be used in reports and drawings.
Note: The information in the General Information form is not required to design foundations but can helpful for records in your organization.
Opens when Project Info > General Information is selected in the Main Navigator.
Group Parameter Description General
Information
Project ID This may be your organizations internal project identification number.
Project Title This can be any text title which is helpful in identifying the project by name.
Site Loca-tion
This can any text title which is help-ful in describing the physical loca-tion of the project.
Client Organization These files are used to capture your organization's client data.
Contact Per-son
Phone Fax Email Address
General Information form parameter descriptions
Group Parameter Description Engineer's
Description
Designer This would typically be the name or initials of the staff member respon-sible for creating the project file.
Supervisor This would typically be the name or initials of the supervisor or
reviewer.
Start Date Enter a date for the beginning of the project. This date defaults to the date the project file was created.
Hint: When this cell is
highlighted, clicking the down arrow to the right of the field will open a calendar tool which can be used to select a date.
Target Date Enter a milestone or target
completion date (can be changed at any time). This date defaults to the date the project file was created.
Hint: When this cell is
highlighted, clicking the down arrow to the right of the field will open a calendar tool which can be used to select a date.
Review History form
Used to keep track of the progress of a project.
Opens when Project Info > Review History is selected in the Main Navigator pane.
Review History table
Each new revision is given a unique ID Number, starting from 1.
l Date - Input the date.
Hint: When this cell is highlighted, clicking the down arrow to the right of the field will open a calendar tool which can be used to select a date.
l Job Name - Add any text description. You may wish to add all jobs which were worked on for a particular revision.
l Checked By - Add any text description. This is typically the name or initials of the reviewer.
Hint: Pressing [Return] or [tab] will skip to the next cell in the table.
Arrow keys may also be used to navigate through the table in any order.
Comments form
Add any text description. This is typically a summary of the work performed for this revision or notes from a reviewer.
Save
Saves any changes made to the revision table and comments field.
Comments will not be saved with the revision item unless the save
button is clicked.
Delete
Removes the currently selected revision from the revision table.
Note: Deleting a revision from the revision table also deletes the Comments that were stored with the deleted revision.
Delete All
Removes all revisions from the revision table.
Modeling View Options form
Used to control graphics display by toggling the display of several model elements. It also has options to change color of certain entities.
Opens when:
l Project Info > Modeling View Options is selected in the Main Navigator pane, or
l the View Options tool is selected in the Standard toolbar.
Show Supports
Toggles the view of supports.
Show Support Numbers
This option is used to display support numbers. Support numbers will not be displayed if Show Supports option is unselected.
Show Piles
This option is used to switch on/off display of piles in graphics area.
Show Pile Numbers
This option is used to display pile numbers. Pile numbers will not be displayed if Show Piles option is unselected.
Show Load Arrows
This option is used to display load arrows.
Note: The color picker control to the right is used to select a color for load arrows graphics.
Show Load Values
This option is used to display load values next to the load arrows.
Show Physical Beams
This option is used to display physical beams if present in the project.
The color picker control to the right is used to select a color for physical beam graphics.
Draw Line/3D diagram
Select this option to draw physical beam as a line or as a solid surface. Beam property will be used to draw the rectangular beam shape.
Show Plates
This option is used to display plate elements if present in current job.
Note: The color picker control to the right is used to select a color for meshed plate graphics.
Draw <x>D Plates
This option gives user a choice to display plates as 2D surface or a solid 3D diagram.
Show Plate Numbers
This option is used to display plate numbers at the center of each plate.
This option won’t display plate numbers if Show Plates is unselected.
Show Nodes
This option is used to display plate nodes as blobs. This option is
unselected by default.
The color picker control to the right is used to select a color for plate node graphics.
Show Node Numbers
This option is used to display node numbers next to the plate’s nodes.
This option won’t display node numbers if Show Nodes is unselected.
Show Boundary and Holes
This option is used to display boundary and holes created for mat foundation.
Scale Setup form
Used to control the scale at which displacements, loads, and drawing entities like footings and piles are displayed on the model. If the structure’s loads or deformed shape are not clearly visible in the Graphics Window when the options to display them are turned on, you may need to change the scaling values.
Opens when:
l Project Info > Scale Setup Options is selected in the Main Navigator pane, or
l the Scale tool is selected in the Standard toolbar.
The following commands are available
Results Scales: Displacement
Used to change the displacement scale of a mat foundation.
Displacement diagram is only available for mat foundation after a successful analysis.
Note: You should decrease the scaling value to increase the amount of deflection or loading shown on the diagram. Why do you decrease the parameter value to increase the apparent size? The values in the dialog box represent the actual displacement or loading per unit distance on the graphic diagram. Therefore, if you reduce the amount of actual structural deflection required to display a unit distance of deflection on the diagram, you will see a larger apparent
displacement on the diagram.
Loading Scales
This group allows you to change the display of load arrows.
Concentrated force and moment for a point load has different scaling options. Distributed load scale is applicable to line load on mat and beam loads. Pressure load scale is applicable to quadrilateral and circular pressure load.
Modeling Scales
Used to change the display size of supports (Footing Width) and piles (Pile Length). Drawings of footing size are not scaled as the sizes are not known, so sometimes those entities may seem too big or small. Changing the scale user can control the sizes of those drawings.
Set As Default
Select this option to save the current scale setup for the default for the program.