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Combined Footing

Used to create a combined footing with two supports or a strip footing with more than two supports.

The Combined Footing group contains the following items:

Table 1. Combined Footing group items
Name Description Same Effect as Selecting
Concrete & Rebar Opens the Concrete and Rebar form (Combined footing) in the Data Input pane, which is used to input concrete and rebar properties for the current isolated footing job.  
Cover, Soil, and Safety Opens the Cover and Soil form (Combined footing) in the Data Input pane, which is used to input cover parameters, soil characteristics, and factor of safety values.  
Footing Geometry Opens the Footing Geometry form (Combined footing) in the data input pane, which is used to input isolated footing geometry for the current isolated footing job. View Options in the Ribbon toolbar
Design Initiates the Designing a Combined footing . A dialog opens to confirm you want to proceed.  

To delete a combined footing

Select the footing from the tree, click on Delete.

Note: Deletion of support from a combined footing is not allowed. You need to recreate the combined footing to edit it. This will generate the following error message.
SettingDescription
Delete All Click to delete all the combined footing at once.