STAAD Foundation Advanced Help

Starting a new foundation toolkit project

  1. Do either of the following:

    Select Toolkit Mode from the Start Page.

    or

    Select New from the Application menu button, select Foundation Toolkit in the Create New Project dialog box , and click Open

    or

    Press <CTRL+N>, select Foundation Toolkit in the Create New Project dialog box , and click Open.

    The program window opens a new project in the Foundation Toolkit mode (displayed in the Main Navigation Window).
  2. (Optional) Select either General Information form Review History form
  3. Select one of the following options in the Project Info section of the Main Navigation Window:

    Isolated/Block Foundation

    or

    Combined Footing

    or

    Dead Man Anchor Guy Foundation

    or

    Drilled Pier

    or

    Pile Cap

    or

    Ribbed Beam Footing

    The corresponding wizard dialog opens.
  4. Completed the wizard pages. A new leaf is entered into the Main Navigation Window for the new foundation.
  5. Repeat steps 1 through 3 to add additional jobs to the project. Select the current job using the Job Selection list found in the Standard toolbar.
    Note: Different footing types may be added to the same project to explore different footing scenarios or to contain all footing types to be used within a single structure.

This will create the GUI for Foundation Toolkit. In the left side of the window there will be a tree control in the “Foundation Toolkit Menu” pane as the following figure shows.

In Main Navigator five new leafs are added “Create Isolated Footing/Block”, “Create Combined Footing”, “Create Dead Man Anchor guy Tower foundation”, “Create Drilled Pier” and “Create Pile Job”. Click on a specific leaf will help you to create the job. You can create more than one job for each of them (“Create isolated Footing/Block”, “Create Combined Footing”, “Create dead man Anchor”, “Create Drilled pier”, “Create Pile Job”). The created jobs will be listed in the tree view as following.

“Edit” “Delete” and “Design” These three features of a particular job helps the user to edit the fields after creation and click on “Delete” deletes the job. “Design” will design the corresponding foundation.

Parent topic: Foundation Toolkit