Design Colors
The Design colors indicate the design status of each steel column. All non-steel column members are colored dark gray. The color of each steel column indicates its design status as follows:
| Setting | Description |
|---|---|
| Yellow | Column is ready for design. |
| Green | Column was designed and passed all design checks. |
| Blue | Column design passed and the design was frozen. |
| Light Blue | Column cannot be designed. A column cannot be designed because of one or more of following reasons (1) column has a kinked situation which occurs when there is a change in slope between the columns when moving from one level to another and there is no bracing in one or two axes directions at the kink location, (2) columns self-weight flag is switched on and it has some columns above which cannot be designed, (3) the steel column supports load from a two-way deck. |
| Red | Column was designed and some design warnings were 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 2.18 for more information on freezing the design). |