To Place the Steel Deck Roof

Select

(Place Deck).

The Place Deck dialog appears.

In the General section, set the following:

Set the Place By to Structural Members.
Keep the Concrete Fill option unchecked.

In the Steel Deck section, do the following:

Set the Catalog Instance to Roof Deck.
Change Organization from VERCO to ASC.
Set the Profile Name to Deep Deck 6.

Selecting the Deck 6 profile updates the information in the Steel Deck Properties settings.

Keep the default value for Sheet Width, and
Enter 0:4 for the Overhang setting.
Keep the Model Sheet Width option unchecked.

Note: If a composite deck had been required, enabling Concrete Fill would have activated Composite Data and Concrete Fill settings.

Click Place.

The prompt Pick first Structural Member appears on the Status bar.

Snap to the top of the column at A1, and accept it with a data point to establish the first corner of the steel deck.

Snap to the top of the column at C1, and accept it with a data point. The prompt Pick next Structural Member. Reset to accept place boundary appears on the Status bar.

Snap to the top of the column at C3, and accept it with a data point. The prompt Pick next Structural Member. Reset to accept place boundary appears on the Status bar.

Snap to the top of the column at A3, and accept it with a data point. The prompt Pick next Structural Member. Reset to accept place boundary appears on the Status bar.

Now have completed selecting Structural members. Reset (right mouse click) to continue. The prompt Place fist point to define deck extrude direction appears on the Status bar.

Enter a data point to establish the first reference point of the extrude direction for the steel decking. The prompt Place the next point to accept appears on the Status bar.

Move the cursor away from the first point, in the direction positive X direction, and enter a data point. The deck is placed, and the Place Deck tool returns to the first prompt given Pick first Structural Member.

With the Place Deck tool still active, Place another steel roof deck using the same settings as before:

Snap to the endpoint of the of girder connected to the column at C1, and accept it with a data point to establish the first corner of the steel deck.
Snap to the endpoint of the column at D1, and accept it with a data point.
Snap to the endpoint of the column at D3, and accept it with a data point.
Snap to the endpoint of the of girder connected to the column at C3, and accept it with a data point.
Reset and enter two data points to establish the steel decking extrude direction. Use the same X direction for the second extrude direction data point.

The steel roof decks are now complete.

(Optional) Select Commit (Changes) utility to commit your changes to design history Enter your comments (such as Added bar joists) in the Commit Changes dialog, and click OK.

You can alway check the Design History for your latest comments.