The Coupling Beam Criteria dialog is where the global reinforcing criteria for Coupling Beams are specified. These criteria apply to all Coupling Beams in the model. In order to assign reinforcing different than specified in this dialog, the reinforcing must be specified in the View/Update dialog. Alternatively, the user may freeze one or more Coupling Beams and then change the global Coupling Beam criteria. In this manner the frozen Coupling Beams will retain the reinforcing assigned to them, while the remainder of the Coupling Beams will use the new setting.