Freeze Reinforcing

Any Wall Panel in a Wall Design Group may be frozen using the Freeze Reinforcing command. When the reinforcing in a Wall Panel is frozen, the Bar Pattern that is currently associated with the Wall Panel will not change even when an action is taken that clears the design results for the Wall Design Group. For example, a change to the load combinations is an action that will cause all design results and reinforcing in a Wall Design Group to be cleared. However, any Wall Panels within the Wall Design Group that are frozen will retain their Bar Pattern assignment.

There are a few different common applications of this command:

The engineer wants to design wall reinforcement by a design-check process, possibly knowing in advance the reinforcement that is required within the walls.
The engineer would like to hold some Wall Panels in a Wall Design Group at a constant reinforcing layout, while optimizing the other Wall Panels. For a "C"-shaped wall core for instance, the engineer may want to assign minimum reinforcement to the web of the "C", while allowing the program to select the required flange steel.
The engineer is evaluating an existing condition.

Section Cuts that lie within a frozen Wall Panel will be colored blue once the design is complete, rather than green (unless the Section Cut has design failures, in which case the Section Cut will be colored red).

Setting	Description
Freeze Mode	Single: Freeze the reinforcing in a single wall panel at a time by clicking on it. Fence: Perform fence freeze operations on groups of wall panels. All: Freeze the reinforcing on all wall panels in the model.