The status of each column is indicated by the color with which it is drawn on screen. All non-concrete members are colored dark grey while in Concrete Column mode. The color of each concrete column indicates its design status.

• Pale Blue - Column is not ready to be designed. If all concrete columns are pale blue, check the File - Model status dialog to determine what needs to be done in order to get the columns to a designable state. The most common reason all concrete columns would be in this state is due to a lack of concrete column load combinations and/or no bar patterns have been assigned.
• Yellow - Column is ready for design.
• Green - Column was designed and passed all design checks.
• Blue - Column design passed and the design was frozen.
• Red - Column was designed and some design warnings we reported. The warnings can be viewed in the View/Update dialog box or in the Column Design Report. If a column is frozen but has some design warnings it will be colored red to indicate that design warnings were found. (See section Process - Freeze for more information on freezing the design)