The Freeze Reinforcing command can be executed on either Wall Panels or Coupling Beams. When either of these entities is frozen, the reinforcing currently assigned will be retained until the Clear Reinforcing command is executed on the Wall Panel or Coupling Beam. As a result, actions that cause Wall Panel or Coupling Beam reinforcing to be cleared (such as a re-run of RAM Frame, changes to the load combinations, or changes to the code criteria) have no effect on the assigned reinforcing.

Freezing a Wall Panel prevents it from being optimized by any future use of the Design All or View/Update > Optimize commands. Rather, the Wall Panel will retain the reinforcing assigned to it at the time the Freeze command was issued.