Once the tendons and profile polylines are defined, the optimizable properties can be selected and ranges and increments set. Generally, all tendon objects (banded tendon polyline and distributed tendon quadrilateral) should be set as optimizable. The ranges should be set broad, even if they are slightly outside values that might be intuitively expected. For supplemental distributed tendon quadrilaterals that are drawn over the primary quadrilaterals, the minimum range can be set to zero in case they are not necessary.

For the profile polylines, normally only the low point (span polyline) elevations are adjusted, leaving the high point (support polyline) elevations at the highest possible elevation. These high point elevations should then be set with their Optimize check box left unchecked. The only exception is the high point at a cantilever support, which may sometime need to be reduced from the maximum value so the cantilever is not overbalanced. This, and any other support profile polyline that is appropriate, can be set to be optimized with a reasonable range. Normally, all span profile polylines will all be set to be optimizable, with a range set to the entire physical range of valid profiles that fit within the concrete while respecting covers. The increments for profile polylines can be set to standard support chair increments, or something large, if desired.