Purpose

The Template ID associates the template with a material (e.g., Steel) and a design code. It is used for two purposes. When the Load Combination Generator is invoked, it reads all of the template files (files with the extension .cmb) located in the Tables directory. When a file with a Template ID that matches the current material and design code is found, the template is read from that file and made available to the Load Combination Generator.

The second use for the Template ID's is related to Custom Combinations. While an engineer can still type in Custom Combinations, it is now possible to generate custom combinations based on the templates. In the Custom Combinations dialog, all of the templates are available to the user (not just those associated with the current material and design code). The Template ID's are displayed in a combo box. The user selects a template type and from there has access to all of the templates associated with that Template ID.

Format

The Template ID line begins with ID: followed by the Template ID, TemplateIDText . It must be the first line of the template file and there can be only one Template ID line per file.

For use in the Load Combination Generator, TemplateIDText must be one of the Template ID’s listed in Table 3:

If a Template ID other than one listed above is used in a template file, that template will not be available to the generator. It will, however, be available through the Custom Load Combination dialog.