Esteem 8 Training 2011

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Esteem 8 Training

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Support email: [email protected] (This edition is dated 25th January 2011)

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Esteem 8 training course is designed to be conducted in a "hands-on" manner. The user is expected to follow the guidance of an instructor.

The objective of this training course is to give the user an over-view of Esteem 8. Upon completion of the course, the user should be able to navigate through the software and use it effectively.

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Proposed time schedule:

10.00am to 11.00am - 2D Input (I)

11.00am to 11.30am - 2D Input (II) - (Analysis, Design and Detailing) 11.30am to 12.30pm - 3D (Lateral Load, Foundation Setting)

1.30pm to 2.30pm - 3D (Analysis & Design, Detailing) 2.30pm to 3.30pm - Archi (Import & Tracing)

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becomes invisible. Select gridlines from region Default 0 and in Object Viewer panel: Uncheck Visibilty on; Mark End, Dimension End and Extension Line End. Repeat the steps for gridlines in region Default 1. This time, Uncheck Visibility on; Mark Begin, Dimension Begin and Extension Line Begin j) The gridline input is now

complete. Checked all region to display and Zoom All to display extends of model.

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Steps Expected Ouput k) Edit Gridline length

Eg. To shorten the length of gridline C/1-2 and 2/A-C. Click on Trim Grid icon . Click on the gridline until circle mark appears. Call out the OSnap menu and check Intersection.

Position 'X' mark at grid (1A,C) and click to confirm. Repeat for gridline 2/A-C. Shorten the gridline to grid (2, B1).

l) Using Region Selection

icon

Region Selection is used to update the colors of

grids within a region. Double-click on boxes to change Grid colors for respective regions. Uncheck Default0 to make the gridlines in region Default0 become invisible.

Notes : The

invisibility of the gridlines does not mean that the grids have been

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Data Sheet Input

k) Using Data Sheet Input

To edit element properties, open this utility from Main Menu > Edit > Data Sheet Input. Eg: Editing gridline properties

To edit girdline visibilities, select the gridline and uncheck or check in the tool boxes to change the visibilities. User can also select a particular element, say a gridline, and change the gridline properties such as dimension and grid marks in this Data Sheet Input.

Select gridline, and click on Data Sheet Input icon. Double click on the Distance boxes to change the distance values. l) Dimension

referencing

To change the reference of a dimension.

Eg: To make gridline A as reference for the dimension of gridline C.

Select gridline C. In Data Sheet Input, go to

gridline C, set the Ref dimension > Begin > select gridline A from the list.

Then Uncheck the Dimension (visibile) > Begin > For gridline B. Close the Data Sheet Input by clicking on 'X' button.

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Select gridline B again and click Indent In three times to indent in gridline B. Now the dimension of gridline C is using gridline A as

reference.

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Tutorial 2 - Input Beams

4. Beam input

Auto Generate Beam a) In Beam Input mode

Batch input beam using Auto Generate Beam icon . Uncheck Column Extend. Click Add in X Direction and Add in Y Direction to generate beams.

Alternatively while on Auto Generate Beam, click on any gridline to input beam along that gridline. Input beam on

gridlines

To manually input beams, click on gridline

intersection points to mark begin and end point for the beam.

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Steps Expected Ouput b) After using Auto Generate

Beam, there are some beams that are not used.

c) Edit beam

Edit the length of beam gb6 so that it stops at gridline (2,4). Click on Edit beam icon . Click once on beam gb6 until red circle comes out and click on grid intersection (2,4) to trim the beam. Alternatively, break beam gb6 using Beam Break icon . Click on beam gb6 and break at grid intersection (2,4) and (1A,B1) until beam connector symbol appears. To break the beam into three parts, click anywhere before the break points

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Steps Expected Ouput d) Manual Beam Input

Delete beams gb5, gb7 and gb13. Click and press Delete to delete the beams.

Input beam at grid

(1A,B1) to (1,C). Click on Beam Input icon . Click on grid (1A,B1) and once again at (1,C) to input beam.

e) Repeat step 4(d) to edit beam gb10 to stops at B1

f) The outcomes of steps 4(c)

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Steps Expected Ouput g) Curve Beam

Next create curve beam along grid (C/4 to 8). Click on the Curve Beam icon . Click on grid intersection (C,1) to mark the first point. Then click again on grid intersection (3,8) to mark the second point. To mark the third point, click until the Outer Middle Offset value is 1500mm.

h) To edit the properties of the curve beam, click on it and edit the beam

properties as below: Beam drop

=25mm Beam size

=200 mm x 475mm Outer Middle Offset =1500mm

i) Merge Beam

To merge beam gb7 to gb5, click on Merge Beam icon . While on Merge Beam mode, first click on gb7 and click on gb5 to merge these two beams. Repeat the steps to merge beam gb7 to gb8.

j) After merging of beams gb5

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Steps Expected Ouput k) Beam load input

From the Beam Input icon , click on input beam Point Load icon , and choose User Defined

icon. This is to manually specify the location of the point load. In the beam Point Load input mode, set the point load value in Object Viewer panel to: Dead load=10kN,

Live load=5kN. Then click on beam gb10 to input the load on this beam. Drag the arrow until the point load is offset at 1000mm from grid (1A,A1).

l) Beam Uniform Distributed

Load input.

Next, input Uniform Distributed Load onto beam gb2. Click on Uniform Distributed Load icon and User Define icon . Click on beam gb2 and specify the Begin offset to 300mm and End offset to 3000mm. m) Beam end condition

To change beam end condition, click on Beam End Condition icon . Then change beam end condition of beam gb6 and gb9 to Pinned.

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Tutorial 3 - Save, Back Up and Auto Back Up

Steps Expected Output

5. Save, Back up and Auto Backup

a) To save the current active floor plan, click Save icon.

b) To save for all floor keyplans, click Save All

icon.

c) To create a Backup file, click from Main Menu > File > Backup > Create New Backup. The backup files will automatically be located under the project file's backup folder.

Reminder : For a large project model, the backing up process may take a long time if the analysis/design results are attached together.

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Tutorial 4 - Column Input

6. Column input Batch column input In column input mode

a) To auto generate columns at

all grid intersections, click on Generate Column at Intersection icon. b) To delete a column,

select a column and press Delete.

Floor height

To change floor height, click Floor Parameter from Main Menu or choose Main Menu > Settings > Floor Parameter. c) Change floor height to

1500mm.

d) To change column size, in column input mode , click on column (1,A) and change the size to 150mm x 150mm. The purpose is to make it fail and later on to use Column Calculator to try to redesign the column. To input column which follows beam width dimension, click on Fix to Beam Size icon and continue to input the column. The column size will follow the intersecting beam width dimension.

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Tutorial 5 - Slab Input

7. Slab input Batch slab input In slab input mode ; a) Set the slab thickness to

175mm in Object Viewer panel.

b) To batch input slab into bounded areas, with the slab thickness 175mm set in 8(a) simply click Add to Bounded Areas icon . All of the areas bounded are now added with slabs.

c) Edit Slab drop and thickness

Make slab FS1 to drop at 25mm with thickness 150mm. To do this, click on the inside of slab FS1, and change the slab drop and thickness in Object Viewer panel.

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Steps Expected Output d) Delete slab and input

slab manually

To delete a slab, click on the slab and press Delete key. Delete slab FS8.

e) From slab FS9, create another subslab bounded by grids (7,8A), (6,8A), (6,8) and (7,8).

f) To create subslab from slab FS9, first click on slab FS9 to select it. Then click on the three new boundary points (7,8A), (6,8A) and (6,8) to create new subslab bounded by these points.

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Steps Expected Output g) Slab FS9 now becomes two

subslabs. Set the drop to the subslab to 25mm, and change thickness to 150mm.

Slab loading input

h) Slab point load input Input point load onto slab FS3. In slab input mode , Click on slab Point Load icon

, and set the Live Load in Object Viewer panel to 5kN. Then by setting the reference point from bottom left corner, set the location of the point load to (1000,2000)mm.

i) Slab line load input Input line load onto slab FS6. Click on slab Line Load input icon , and then make sure Othogonal icon is OFF. While in Line Load input mode, enter the following in the Object Viewer panel:

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Steps Expected Output j) Create slab cut section

To create slab cut section, click on Cut Section icon and click the gridline you want the cut section parallel to. Next, click at the point of desired location for cut section. The cut section produced will follow the length of the gridline.

Tips: The cut section mark can be re-positioned by editing the 'Begin Point' or 'End Point' in the Object Viewer.

Eg:

To make cut section mark no.4 stops at end of gridline B1, set the 'End Point' to (-6000).

Or, click on cut section mark and drag to locate its new position.

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Steps Expected Output k) To produce cut section

parallel to slab boundary, click on Parallel icon . First Select the slab. Next click the boundary you want the cut section

parallel to (beam gb12 in figure).

To make the cut section perpendicular to slab

boundary beam gb12, Turn Off the Parallel icon and do step 7(k).

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Tutorial 6 - Brickwall Input

8. Brickwall input a) Input brickwall by user

define

To input brickwall manually onto a beam, click on Brickwall icon and choose User Define icon . Click once on beam gb9 to select the beam and input brickwall. Click at grid (2,A) to specify the starting point of the brickwall. Drag the mouse cursor to grid (2,B) and click again to mark the ending point of the brickwall location. Input brickwall on whole

beam length

Still in brickwall input mode, click On Whole Beam icon to input brickwall on a beam. Then simply click on a beam to input the brickwall on the whole beam length.

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Steps Expected Output b) Input brickwall on

slab

To input brickwall on slab, use the brickwall input User Define icon, together with Othogonal icon and Snap icon on. In Object Viewer panel, change brickwall property Index to 2 to select thickness 115mm.

Simply click on slab FS9 to select. Then drag mouse cursor to grid (7,8A) and click to mark starting point, drag again to grid (7A,8A) and click to mark the ending point of the brickwall.

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Tutorial 7 - 3D view

9. To display the 3D view of the project, click on 3D View icon . Open up the 3D display panel and Uncheck the elements not to be displayed.

a) Right click on the 3D display brings up the context menu where user can uncheck elements not to be displayed. Choose the viewing options from the men; Eg. Front view, Top view.

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Tutorial 8 - 2D Analysis and Design

10. Run 2D Analysis a) Generate the mesh for

plan gb.

Click on Generate Mesh icon .

Turn on the View/Hide Node Number icon and View/Hide Eelment Number icon to display the node and element numbers on the mesh.

b) Beam moment release mark and Slab moment release mark

Zoom into the mesh. Turn on Beam Moment Release Mark icon and Slab Moment Release Mark icon

. Notice at end of beam gb6 and gb9, there are while color circle marks. These marks indicate the end nodes of these beams are released (Pinned).

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c) Now analyse the plan. To do this, click on Analyse Plan icon .

After analyse plan, simply click on any button from 2D Contour Result menu

to view the resulting contours. To view displacement contour, click on Displacement icon

to view the

displacement contour. To display the 2D Sub-frame view for the plan, click on Subframe view icon .

To create cut section, simply click from a

reference grid and specify the location of the section cut.

To view a contour through a section cut, move cursor closer to a cut section label ("Click to view section" will be shown) and click to open a contour section cut view. To make an arbitary cut section, right click and choose Arbitary Contour Cut. Then specify the starting point and ending point of the arbitary cut section.

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d) Design Slab After 2D analysis is completed, slab can be designed. Select floor to be actived. Click on Design Slab icon to design slab. Set the Design Parameters. Click OK when finished. The Slab design result appear automatically.

e) Design 2D Beam Continue with beam design. Click on Beam 2D design icon . Set the Design Parameters. Click OK when finished. The Beam design results appear automatically.

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Tutorial 9 - Create New Plan

11. Add floor above

Create another floor above plan gb.

a) To do this, Right click on plan

gb on Project Explorer, and on the context menu, click on New Plan to bring up the New Plan pop up menu.

In the New Plan pop up menu, Check the following: ‘a copy from gb’ and ‘Copy Parameters’ Ensure that the floor to be added will be at ‘top’ of current floor.

Click OK. Double click on plan 1b in Project Explorer to view the plan.

b) Delete columns

In plan 1b, delete columns (2,B), (2,B1), (1A,B1) and (1A,B). To delete the columns, go to Column input mode and select the columns. Then press Delete key.

Select beam 1b3 and delete.

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Steps Expected Output Delete all loadings

c) Delete all loadings on beams

To do this, go back to Beam input mode and select the Point load input icon . Select point load on beam 1b10. Press delete key to delete the loading. Use Line load input to delete Line load on beam 1b2.

To delete all beam loadings, select the beams and click on beam Clear Loads icon.

d) Delete all loadings on slab

To do this, go back to Slab input mode and select the Point Load icon . Slect the point load on slab FS3 and press Delete key. Use Line load input to delete Line load on slab FS6.

To delete all loadings on slabs, select the slabs and click on Clear All Loads on Slab icon.

e) Delete beams and edit multiple parallel beams We want to input RC wall later at floor 1b at grid (2,B), (2,B1), (1A,B1) and (1A,B). Remove beams at the location of the RC walls. Select beam 1b3 and press Delete. Edit parallel beam

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Steps Expected Output grid (2,B) to make the

beams stop at this grid mark.

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Tutorial 10 - RC Wall Input

12. Add RC wall in plan 1b. a) Click on Wall Input

icon .

Set the thickness to 150mm in Object Viewer panel.

Using similar procedure to input beam, input RC walls at grid intersections (2,B), (2,B1), (1A,B1) and (1A,B).

b) Add New Plan

Repeat steps in Tutorial 9 to

add another floor, 2b, above floor 1b with similar grids and parameters. When finished, Double click on plan 2b to display the plan view.

c) Delete Brickwalls Now viewing plan 2b, we need to delete all the brickwalls. To do this, click on Brickwall input icon . Press CTRL+A and pop menu 'Brickwall selection' asking

whether to delete brickwalls on ‘Beam’ or ‘Slab’ appears.

Select ‘Beam’ to delete all

brickwalls on beams. Press CTRL+A again and select ‘Slab’ to delete all brickwalls on slabs.

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Steps Expected Output d) Create Shear wall

opening

Create shear wall opening for shear wall at floor 1b and 2b.

For plan 1b, create an opening located at wall (1A/B-B1).

To do this, first click Elevation Input icon . Then on the plan view of floor 1b, click on gridline 1A to open up the

elevation view from Grid 1A.

e) While on the elevation view,

click on Wall Opening icon . Set the width and height of wall opening to 1500mm and 2000mm in Object Viewer panel. Select wall (1A/B-B1) to input the opening. A mark showing the opening appears.

Click opening again and right click to set the location of the opening and also assign this opening to floor 1B.

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Tutorial 11 - Add Lateral Load

13. Add Lateral Load

a) At floor 2b, click on Lateral Input icon to input lateral wind load. Then select Wind Load input icon . Open up the wind load case combo box and select Edit Case. In Wind Load Manager pop up menu, click on Add button to add wind load case, WL1 with Angle of attack to 220°. When finished, click CLOSE button.

Click Wind Load Manager icon.

b) Input Wind load on plan Input wind load case WL1 onto floor 2b. From Wind load combo box, select WL1.

In the Object Viewer panel, set the Magnitude to 5kN. To input the wind load, move cursor to grid (3,8) and click to confirm

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Then click grid (5,8) on plan to input.

d) Add Notional Load Case Click on Notional Load Display icon to input another notional load case. Open the notional load combo box and click Edit Cases. On the Notional Load Manager menu, Click on Add button to add notional load Case 5 in addition to defaults, with Angle 45°. Close the menu when finished.

e) Display Notional Load Case To display the angle of attack of particular Notional load, choose the case in Notional Load combo box.

Eg. Choose Case 5. The angle of attack of the notional load case is shown in plan view.

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Tutorial 12 - Pile List Selection

Steps Exptected Output

14. Choose Pile Type

a) To input pile type, open up the Foundation list in

Project Explorer.

Double click on Pile to bring up Pile List Selection pop up menu. Check on Pile Type to choose. Click OK to finish.

b) Automatically after closing the Pile List Selection pop up menu, user can still change the pile types for any column. Click on any column on plan and change the pile type in Object Viewer panel.

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Tutorial 13 - 3D Analysis and Design

15. Run 3D Analysis and Design

Batch Analysis

Now we can proceed with 3D design of beam, slab, column, wall, pad and pile footing.

a) Click on Batch Process icon

to run Batch process. Click OK and select Full

(2D+3D) and check the following;

Slab design, Beam design, Column design, Wall design, Pad design and Pile design.

This process will run 3D analysis for the whole project as well as design for the elements selected. The Structural Member Failed dialog box pops up if there are any elements failed in the design process.

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Tutorial 14 - View Results

16. Elevation Result a) Select Elevation Result

icon (when a floor is active) to view

loadings and results of a beam or results from sub-frame analysis of a gridline. Click on any beam to view the results.

Alternative, on the display view, Right click on any gridline and select All floor to view the results for all floors, or select Current Floor to view results for the active floor only.

In the Result View Option menu, check the Element Mark to show beam mark. Check Beam Result > Moment to view the moment result.

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Steps Expected Output b) Plan Loading and

Result View

To view all loadings and results from 2D and 3D analysis, click on the Plan Loading and Result view icon .

On the left menu, select the following:

Check on any check box to view the results. 3D Analysis Display To view the 3D Analysis results contour, click on 3D Analysis Display icon

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c) 3D Displacement view

Follow procedure below to display 3D

displacements. From the combo box, choose 3D

Displacement. Select Individual Load type > WL1 to view

displacement due the acting wind load.

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From the Main Menu bar, user can turn on View/Hide Node Number icon to display the nodes. Click on any nodes to view the displacements values.

d) Wall and Column Reactions

Click on Wall and Column Reactions icon

to view the column and wall panel results. Select 3D Full Model radio button on the right panel to view 3D

Results for column reactions.

On the bottom panel, expand the boxes to view the tabulation of 3D reactions of any column.

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Steps Expected Output e) Design Results: Slab,

beam, column, wall, pad and pile footing When elements have been designed, user can view the design results from the Main Menu. Click on Design Result and select Multiple Beam to view multiple results of beams.

In Beam Group Detailing left panel, Check All and click on Refresh button at the bottom to view all the beam detailings for plan gb.

Notes : User can select beams from this list and export the drawings to DXF as well as the design reports for the selected beams.

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Tutorial 15 - Tools

17.Tools

a) After design process is done, select Tools from Main Menu. Choose Project Status

or click the icon to see the status of all the processes that PASSED the analysis and design part.

b) Again from the Tools

menu, choose Column Calculator. Use this tool to redesign column (1,A) in plan gb which has FAILED in design. Click DESIGN button for column (1,A). c) In the Design pop up menu, change column size to 300mmx300mm. Click DESIGN button at the bottom to redesign the column. Click YES when Confirm dialog box pops up. d) The status for design

column (1,A) is now PASS. Click Ok and Update to

automatically change the column size for (1,A) in

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Tutorial 16 - Export, Import and Tracing

This feature enables the user to import elements directly from an architectural drawing into Esteem 8. Before using this feature, it is recommended that user has done some checking to the architectural drawing. To ensure that the program can detect the elements in the architectural drawing, user may be required to do following:

1. Explode entities to its singular form.

2. Check for non-planar entities, eg. a vertical line. 3. Keep the drawing concise, remove unnecessary items. 4. Check to have the last saved in model space.

5. Set the UCS coordinate to world coordinate.

6. Beware of scaled-link element, hyperlink element or Xref element. 7. Start from the plan with most gridlines.

8. Always do a gridline verification as you complete each floor before going on to create other floors. This will prevent compounding verification issues between floors.

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Architectural Import - Radial Grids

1. Open archi Import tab, and click “Load” button.

2. A dialog box will pop out, select associate file to be import.

Notes : Supported files types should be

DXF File (*.dxf) (v2004) DWG File (*.dwg) (v2007) 3. An “Architecture Drawing”

dialog box will pop up, move the mouse to the drawing and right click the mouse. A menu item will come out, select zoom all to view the entire drawing.

4. Select the zone of the

drawing to be import by using “window select”. Then click “Next” button

5. A Layer Selection Manager will pop up. 6. In the Element Combo

box, choose the element category to be import. For Example: “Grid”

7. In the architectural drawing layer, choose the layer containing “Grid” information and assign the layer to the group box at left hand side by clicking “ > ” button . To return back the layer into architectural

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Steps Expected Output 8. Assign the following

elements to their associate layers.

Grid : -Arch_Grid -Arch_Grid Mark Beam: -Arch_Beam Column: -Arch Column RCWall: -Arch Wall

9. After completed assigning associate layers according to the element types, press shift button and click on “Process” button. A parameter menu will pop out.

10. Set Auto Split to “True” and Set Auto Resolve to “True” then click “Done”.

11. An import dialog box will return and showing element that has been successfully imported. 12. Click on “Select Origin

Point” Button and move the mouse to the key plan to choose the origin point of the drawing.

13. Click “Import” Button

and click “Yes” when a dialog box pop up to ask whether to overwrite existing key plan.

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Steps Expected Output Incremental Import

1._{Repeat step 1 until step 12} but using amended architectural drawing. 2._{This amended architectural}

drawing contains new sets of column at the middle curve grid.

3._{After Setting the Origin} Point, click “Import” button and when a dialog box pop up to request whether to

overwrite the existing key plan, click “No” button

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4._{To turn off Grid marks and} all the dimensions shown on plan, go to gridline input mode and select all gridlines. “Uncheck All” on the visibility option except Internal Line.

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Tracing

1. To trace an architectural drawing, choose Tracing tab, and click “Load” button.

2. A dialog box will pop out, select associate file to be import.

3. Click Open “Architectrual Drawing” in the dialog box for “Selecting a drawing for tracing”. Click OK when finished.

4. Check on the "Show Tracing Diagram" and "Show on Top" to show the tracing digram on the top of the display view.

Go back to input mode and input all the necessary elements.

To turn on/off layers,

Check/Uncheck the layer check boxes at the Right Panel.

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Steps Expected Output 5. Import elements

This feature lists the elements that the program can detect but could not be imported to the plan.

Click to add the elements to the project model. The modeling of the project by Architectural Import and Tracing is completed.

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Architectural Import - Lift Core

1. Import Liftcore

fromArchitectural plan Repeat steps as in Architecutral Import –Radial Grids above to import elements from

architectural plan. After finished selecting elements to import, press SHIFT+Process to call up the Parameter menu. Click on Grid tab and set Grid Mark > Tolerance to 4000m. Click DONE when finished. Set the origin point and click Import. 2. Select wall panel (D/E-B) and

(D/C-G) and right click to call up menu. Click on MergeRCWall to merge these walls.

3. At the Opening dialog box, click on Door button. Click OK to confirm.

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Esteem Plus Import to Esteem 8

2. Esteem Plus import to Esteem 8

a) To import a model from Esteem Plus, choose from the File Menu > Import. In the Convert Esteem Plus to Esteem 8 menu, select project file to import, Name the new Esteem 8 project, and specify the location of the project folder.

Select Import Type to Full to import the whole project.

Click START to import. When completed, click OK on the

Success dialog box. In YES in dialog box for Conversion Finish to open the project file.

CLOSE the Convert

Esteem Plus to Esteem 8 menu to view the project.

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b) Click on 3D view icon to display 3D view.

Notes : For every project model imported from Esteem Plus, check the project's plan integrity to ensure the project can pass both Plan and Project Verication as well as able to generate the mesh.

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Export to DXF File

1. Export to DXF File

To batch export DXF file,

click File from Main Menu and choose Batch Export.

a) In the Batch Export pop up menu, check on the items to EXPORT. The DXF files will automatically be located in a subfolder DXFOutput under the project folder.

Choose Drawings from the combo box to export drawings. To export design reports, choose Reports from the combo box.

Notes : Batch Export is available to any element that have been

designed.

b) To Batch Export Reports, choose Report from combo box.

Then Check on any item available that user want to export

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Steps Expected Output c) Export single item as

DXF or DWG

While viewing a model,

user can export what is shown on the screen. For example, to export a floor keyplan, follow the steps below:

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Open a view of the keyplan

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Click File > Export, the user can choose to convert the file to construction drawing before export.

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Choose the type of file to export and Save the drawing.

Notes : User can set the DXF colors for the layers in the drawing before export through Project Parameter > Drawing > Layer Settings.

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Tutorial 17 - Case Studies and Modeling Issue

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Beam input between very close gridpoints

The two hightlighted gridpoints are in a group (causing the beams not connected within the two columns) because the distance from each other is less than 100mm. (Grid 7C and Grid 4)

In the beam input, when a beam is added, it will check through the groups of the begin and end gridpoint selected. It will try every combination of the gridpoints in the two groups to add the beam parallel to any grid that exist there. That is why the beam added is not within the two columns.

To add the beam within the two columns, user has to shorten Grid 4 as well as Grid 7C as shown in the figure below.

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Beam end condition can be set to "AUTO", "FIXED" or "PINNED".

If beam end is set to "AUTO", beam end condition will be set by the program based on the supporting condition of the beam ends:

1. Beam end is supported by a column or wall 2. Beam end is not supported by a column or wall 1. Beam end is supported by a column or wall

The beam end condition will follow the parameter settings "Beam End Release Support" under "Analysis Setting" (Fixed/Pinned).

2. Beam end is not supported by a column or wall

The beam end condition will be "FIXED" if any depth of beams that intersect each other is at least 100mm. Else, the beam end will be "PINNED".

Case studies: A

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All beam ends set to "AUTO" and; Beam end "PINNED" at no support Beam end "FIXED" at support

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Case studies:

B .

All beam ends set to "AUTO" and; Beam ends "FIXED" at no support Beam ends "FIXED" at support

3. Beam End Condition set to “PINNED”

For cases of cantilever beams, user need to take note of the proper end conditions to avoid unstable or large displacement structure. When beam ends are not connected to a support (column or RC wall) these end conditions will not be affected by the Beam End Release Support parameter. Thus, user may need to "FIXED" the beam ends by merging to the adjacent beams.

Case studies:

Beam End Supporting Condition

Expected Result/Outcome/Output

Beam ends are PINNED to each other, and PINNED to support

The beam ends are all PINNED, causing UNSTABLE structure or large displacements

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Case studies:

Beam ends are FIXED to each other and FIXED to the support.

Go to Beam Input > Merge command . Click beam gb8 and secondly beam gb9 to merge the beams. Do the same to merge other beams; gb9 and gb10, gb10 and gb11, gb11 and gb12.

Merging the beam ends will make them to be "monolithic or fixed" to each other. This will avoid UNSTABLE structure or large displacements.

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4. Beam supporting slab - Difference between "PINNED" and "FIXED"

Notes : When using CTRL+A to Fix/Pin beam ends, user need to take note of the difference in the model as shown below.

Model A: All beam ends PINNED

In this model, the beams are not effective in providing stiffness to support the slab. Thus giving larger displacements.

Slab displacement contour :

Model B: All beam ends FIXED

In this model, the displacements are lesser compared to model A since the beams are still effective in supporting the slab.

Slab displacement contour :

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Project Verification

The "Verification" process is vital for user to run to check the integrity of a particular project. This "Verification" process can be done by going to > "Verification" > "Plan", and "Project".

1. Verification > Plan

This command is used to check the Plan Integrity. a. Check plan integrity

b. Check grid usage c. Check Plan Free node

Check plan integrity:

Unless the plan integrity PASS, a report will be displayed when there are

warnings or errors.

Double-click on the cell listed on the warnings/error list to go back to plan display and view the element that caused the warning/error.

Warnings are to help user to decide on a better model (if any) by going through the verification process before

proceeding to analysis and design. Eg: Beam and slab drop configuration.

Plan integrity pass:

Model of beam and slab drop configuration in plan view:

Cut section through beam 1F99 and slab FS84:

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Steps Expected Output 2. Verification > Project Integrity

This command is used to check Project Integrity. a. Check project Grid Integrity

b. Project Verification c. Check Project Free Node d. Auto Break Wall

Project Verification:

Unless the project verification PASS, a report will be displayed when there are warnings or errors.

Auto Break Wall:

This feature auto-breaks rc wall in the project which have intermediate column support(s).

*The main purpose of this feature is for auto-breaking of a walll panel sitting on a few supports as below.

This is to ensure that the Strut and Tie method is able to identify the

appropriate left and right support locations for the wall panel.

Notes :

This feature works ONLY under two conditions:

a) The grid that the supporting column(s) sit on also exist on the rc wall's floor.

b) The supporting column has zero offset.

1. Wall panel not able to be designed using strut and tie:

Reminder : Once this feature is applied, user is not allowed to undo the operation.

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Steps Expected Output Auto Break Wall fail:

This feature will display locations where the rc wall fail to break if the

requirements above are not met.

Turn on "Show Objects from Lower Floor" to show column/walls from the lower floor. .

In cases where the wall fails to break due to no gridline(s) found on the rc wall's floor as shown above, user need to add gridline on the rc wall's floor using either methods below:

a) Use gridline input icon , and input the same gridline location at the column support, or

b) Select the gridline from lower floor and right-click to choose "Copy Grid to Floor Above" to copy the gridline to the rc wall

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floor.

Gridline (B1) is now copied to rc wall's floor from lower floor. Click on "Auto Break Wall" again to break the wall panel (2/A-C) into two panels as below.

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FAQ

Parameters

Q. How do I add more item to the "Bar list"?

Go to Project Parameter > Material > Bar List. Click "Add" and enter the bar diameter in the bar list.

To include the new bar diameter into design bar list, go to Design > Material > Main Bar Sub List.

Click ">>" button to add the new bar diameter to "Material Selection".

Q. How do I change slab design using fabric?

For slab bottom bar, select the slab to design using fabric. In the Object Viewer, select "Yes" to use fabric design in slab. Select the type of fabric for design.

For both top and bottom bar in slab design using fabric, set "Yes" in Object Viewer above as well as in Parameter > Design > Slab. Set Design Option > User Fabric > True.

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Q. How to change the symbol for high yield steel or mild steel bar?

For high yield steel, go to Detailing > Symbol > High yield steel and select the more preferred symbol to use.

For mild steel, go to Detailing > Symbol > Mild steel and select the more preferred symbol to use.

Q. How to add another brickwall thickness to the index list?

Go to Project Parameter > Material > Brick Properties.

Click "Add" to and enter the area density and thickness of the brickwall.

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