General
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Both the
Place By and
Concrete Fill
settings are disabled in Modify Deck.
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Steel Deck
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Contains controls used to modify the DataGroup
catalog Type and Instance for the steel deck.
- Catalog Type –
Displays
Steel Deck DataGroup catalog type to be used
for steel decking.
- Catalog Instance –
Sets the DataGroup catalog type instance to be used for steel decking.
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Kind
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Used to modify the steel decking specification
mode.
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Kind: Table - Properties
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- Organization – Used
to modify the steel decking manufacturer dataset used for the deck. Selecting
an organization updates other options related to the steel decking
manufacturer.
- Revision – Displays
the manufacturer data editions, the year.
- Profile Name – Used
to modify the default profile from available steel deck profiles in the
selected manufacturer data edition (Revision).
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Steel Deck Properties
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Contains controls used to modify the steel decking
properties. Profile dimensions [Tw, Dw, Bw and D] are read only when using
manufacturer data, but can be modified if the deck was placed with the Kind:
Standard. The profile dimensions automatically reset with profile name.
- Thickness (T) – Sets
the steel decking material thickness. Selectable from available options when
Kind: Table, and manually alterable for other Kinds; the value gets rounded to
the nearest thickness option.
- Model Sheet Width –
Used to modify the show/hide status of the edges of the individual steel sheets
that make up the steel deck.
- Sheet Width – Used
to set the width of the individual steel sheets that make up the steel deck.
- Overhang – Used to
modify the overhang distance applied to the deck edges.
- Wave Length (L) –
Enabled for Kind: Sine Wave. Sets the size of the sine wave from trough to
trough which defines the decking profile.
- Depth (D) – Editable
for Kind: Sine Wave. Sets the width of the decking profile's overall dept.
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Modify
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Used to validate and apply the steel deck settings
changes.
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Close
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Dismisses all changes and closes the tool settings
window.
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Deck (Properties) tab
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Deck properties defined on the General tab are
available here as well as all the other Structural member properties stored in
the DataGroup System. Contains controls used to modify the DataGroup properties
of the deck. By default the Steel Deck properties panel is always preset.
Besides the Steel deck properties, the Concrete and Composite Deck properties
are available when
Concrete Fill option was set while placing
the deck.
There are several built in methods for entering
property values:
- Section Picker —
Clicking in the Section Name property value field opens a
section picker which is used to browse and select section
definitions from loaded section files.
- Pick List — Clicking
on properties that are of a type which has a finite set of values such as
Structural Type and Structural Material open pick lists.
- Part Selector —
Clicking in the Part Definition property value field opens a part selector. The
section picker is similar to one seen in member placement, and it used to
select part family combo settings.
- MRU’s — Clicking on
properties that are of a type which accept user defined values such as
ID | Type ID open most recently used pick
lists.
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