STAAD Foundation Advanced Help

Scale Setup form

Used to control the scale at which displacements, loads, and drawing entities like footings and piles are displayed on the model. If the structure’s loads or deformed shape are not clearly visible in the Graphics Window when the options to display them are turned on, you may need to change the scaling values.

Opens when:

  • Project Info > Scale Setup Options is selected in the Main Navigator pane, or
  • the Scale Setup tool is selected in the Home ribbon tab.

The following commands are available

SettingDescription
Results Scales: Displacement

Used to change the displacement scale of a mat foundation. Displacement diagram is only available for mat foundation after a successful analysis.

Note: You should decrease the scaling value to increase the amount of deflection or loading shown on the diagram. Why do you decrease the parameter value to increase the apparent size? The values in the dialog box represent the actual displacement or loading per unit distance on the graphic diagram. Therefore, if you reduce the amount of actual structural deflection required to display a unit distance of deflection on the diagram, you will see a larger apparent displacement on the diagram.
Loading Scales

This group allows you to change the display of load arrows. Concentrated force and moment for a point load has different scaling options. Distributed load scale is applicable to line load on mat and beam loads. Pressure load scale is applicable to quadrilateral and circular pressure load.

Modeling Scales

Used to change the display size of supports (Footing Width) and piles (Pile Length). Drawings of footing size are not scaled as the sizes are not known, so sometimes those entities may seem too big or small. Changing the scale user can control the sizes of those drawings.

Set As Default

Select this option to save the current scale setup for the default for the program.

Refresh

Click to redraw the View window with the current scale settings.