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

• Pale Blue - Beam is not ready to be designed. If all concrete beams are pale blue, check the File > Model Status dialog to determine what needs to be done in order to get the beams to a designable state. The most common reason all concrete beams would be in this state is due to a lack of concrete beam load combinations. If only some concrete beams are pale blue, they most likely are not part of any beam lines. Only concrete beams that have been assigned beam line numbers in the Concrete Gravity Analysis mode can be designed in the Concrete Beam Design mode.
• Yellow - Beam is ready for design.
• Green - Beam was designed and passed all design checks.
• Blue - Beam design passed and the design was frozen.
• Red - Beam was designed and some design warnings we reported. The warnings can be viewed in the View/Update dialog box or in the Beam Design Report. If a beam 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)