Below is a brief description of the global criteria that pertain to the Member and Joint Code Checks performed by all the design specifications. Technical descriptions of how each criterion is used in the Code Check are provided later in the manual. Most of these criteria are the same as that specified in the Standard Provision Mode (Refer to 2.5 Design Criteria). Only the code criteria dialog offers additional options, which are described below. Note that any changes to the criteria will invalidate not only the code checks already performed in this mode, but in the Standard Provision mode also.

The Criteria menu commands are divided into three sections based on functionality. Namely there is a code command, followed by the group of member criteria items, followed by the joint criteria items. Only the code command is discussed below as the other commands remain mostly unchanged from the Standard Provision Mode.