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Edit the span cross section orientation

  1. Select the diagonal span strip between B-5 and C-4.
  2. Select the Orient Span Cross Section tool ().
  3. Turn on Snap Orthogonal ().
  4. Click near the diagonal span strip and then again to the left or right of the first click. The orientation line half way along the span strip is now "horizontal".
  5. Click the Generate Selected Strips tool ().
The new design strips appear, as shown in the following figure.

Design Strip: Longitude Design Spans Plan after editing.

Some of the latitude and longitude design strips (span segment strips) have different widths either side of a column. You could rationalize these strips such that they have similar widths at the column, especially the cantilever. See the discussion in "Defining strip boundaries manually" in Chapter 22, "Defining Design Strips".