Introduction
In STAAD Foundation Advanced, you start out by creating a Project to hold physical information, such as column locations, column dimensions, piles, beams, and loads. The physical information represents the structure that a foundation is intended to support. Unless the design of the structure is modified, these physical conditions generally remain constant throughout the life of a foundation design project. Your project also contains Jobs, which are sets of constraints needed to tell STAAD Foundation Advanced how to perform a foundation design. Each project may contain multiple jobs, making it easy for you to evaluate different design scenarios for a given set of physical conditions.
Note: STAAD Foundation Advanced does not display the entire tree all the time. Rather, it only displays groups and leaves that are relevant to the current status of the project. For example, when you begin a new project, only the Project Info, Foundation Plan, Loads and Factors and Job Setup groups will appear in the Navigator pane. These four groups allow you to specify the physical model upon which the foundation design is performed. It is only when you specify a Job (a set of constraints for STAAD Foundation Advanced to use in performing a foundation design) that the groups related to the design will appear.