D. Foundation Design dialog

Used to specify the supports and results to be exported to a STAAD Foundation Advanced project.

Opens when the Foundation Design workflow is selected.

Setting

Description

Supports for Foundation Design

All Supports – All supports in the structure will be exported to the STAAD Foundation Advanced project.
Selected Supports – Only supports which are selected in the Active view window will be included. Use the Nodes Cursor tool to make selections.
Listed Supports – List the support numbers of supports to included.

Load Cases and Combinations

Select the load cases to be included in the export to STAAD Foundation Advanced project:

Select Envelope – select a load envelope from the drop-down list.
Tip: You can create envelopes in the Analytical Modeling workflow. Refer to M. To create a load envelope for details.
Select Load Cases and Combinations – select this option to choose load cases and combinations to include in the design.

Setting

Description

Excluded from design

All primary load cases and load combinations are listed here. Any that remain in this list are not exported to the

Table 1. Load Selector tools
Click this button	To
Include	Include load cases selected in the Excluded from design list in the To be included in design list below.
Include All	Include all available load cases in the To be included in design list below.
Exclude	Remove the selected load cases from the To be included in design list below.
Exclude All	Remove all load cases in the To be included in design list below.

To be included in design

Loads included here will be exported to the STAAD Foundation Advanced project.

STAAD Foundation Advanced

Starts STAAD Foundation Advanced and imports the structural data selected in this dialog into a new project file.