Concrete Beam Color-Coding

The status of each beam is indicated by the color with which it is drawn on screen. All non-concrete members are colored dark gray while in Concrete Beam mode. The color of each concrete beam indicates its design status. The Beam design color represents both the reinforcing design and the deflection check results.

Setting	Description
Pale Blue	Beam is not ready to be designed. If all concrete beams are pale blue, check the File > Model status dialog to determine what needs to be done in order to get the beams to a designable state. The most common reason all concrete beams would be in this state is due to the absence of concrete beam load combinations. If only some concrete beams are pale blue, they most likely are not part of any beam lines. Only concrete beams that have been assigned beam line numbers in the Concrete Analysis mode can be designed in Concrete Beam Design.
Yellow	Beam is ready for design.
Orange	Beam was designed and has passed design checks but some aspect of the design needs attention as described in the warnings section.
Green	Beam was designed and passed all design checks.
Blue	Beam design passed and the design was frozen.
Red	Beam was designed and some design warnings were reported. The warnings can be viewed in the View/Update dialog box or in the Beam Design Report. If a beam is frozen but has some design warnings it will be colored red to indicate that design warnings were found (see Freeze Beam Line Design for more information on freezing the design).

Note: Once a design is performed on a beam line, all beams in the beam line will be color-coded to indicate their new design status. Beams are repainted on a beam-by-beam basis according to their individual status.