Copy and Clear User Sizes

If you have one column saved with the sizes you want to keep, that column line design can be easily copied to other column lines.

Select Process > Copy from the menu bar.
A target cursor with an arrow pointing to 2 o'clock now appears. At the bottom left corner of the screen the program indicates that you should select the column line to copy from:
Select the Column at Grids R-2. The cursor changes slightly and a new message at the bottom left corner of the screen indicates to now select the column line to copy to.
Click the Column at Grids R-4 (you can rotate the model or view in it in elevation mode if necessary).

At this point, the program is going to make the column at R-4 just like the column at R-2. This saves you the step of performing a View/Update on all columns with identical designs.

Note: If the new design is insufficient for the column at R-4, then a warning message will pop up asking if you want to cancel the operation.

At certain stages of the project you might want to freeze the column designs without making any changes to the program selected sizes.

Select Process > Freeze Design > Column line.

The Target cursor will appear and any column line you select will be frozen. The sizes will not be re-optimized by the program unless cleared first. Using the [Update Database] button in the View/Update dialog box is the same as freezing a column line.

User assigned or frozen column sizes may be cleared by using one of the Process > Clear Design commands from the menu.

Note: Process – Clear Design – All will only clear sizes from the gravity columns. If you want to clear the sizes of lateral columns, you must use the Process – Clear Design – Column Line command.