Place Advanced Deck tool

Found on the Home ribbon tab in the Superstructure group.

To place a deck between supportlines, you must select the first and second supportlines, and click to continue. The Place Advanced Deck dialog opens up, and you can define deck sections, Diaphragms and Variable Constraints and click OK to generate the deck.

If you select to Add Constraints, then the Solid Constraints Definition dialog opens. Specify any necessary point or variable constraints along the deck and then click Apply.

Tool Settings

Setting

Description

Deck group

Setting	Description
Start Station Offset	Offset distance along stationing from the starting supportline station to the start of deck.
End Station Offset	Offset distance along stationing from the end of deck to the end supportline station.
Horizontal Offset	Horizontal offset distance from alignment to WP of deck template.
Vertical Offset	Vertical offset distance from alignment to WP of deck template.
Chord Tolerance	A lower tolerance allows for further refinement in the alignment and profile curves, and helps in building a more accurate model. Uses master units. A finer model results in a larger file size, and depending on the model could take more time to regenerate.
Max Dist Between Sections	Type a distance to use for the accuracy of the modeled object. A lower number increases the model accuracy for tight radius curves, etc. but can slow performance. Uses master units.

Material

Click […] to select the material from the Material Library.

Feature group

Setting	Description
Feature Definition	Select an existing feature definition from the drop-down list to use for object being placed.
Name Prefix	Type a prefix value to use for all objects set using this Feature Definition, which are useful in quickly identifying features in a group.

Key-in: bmgeom deck placeadvanceddeck