GS. Quick Commands Pop-up menu
This menu Opens when you press the space bar when the View window has the application focus.
You can customize the Quick Commands with any tool by clicking the icon and then adding tools from the Customize Quick Commands Popup dialog.
Tool Name | Description | |
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Structure Tools > |
Multiple Structures |
Opens the List of Structures dialog, which is used to determine if the current model consists of more than one unconnected structure. Select a Structure in the list to see each structure highlighted. |
Beam Plate Connectivity | Used to check for plates that are improperly connected to beams. Beams must be connected to plates at their nodes in order to ensure proper coupling and load transfer. This tool will inform the user if any improper connections are present in the model. | |
Merge Properties |
Used to merge the properties of two or more similar objects. When a STAAD input file has a number of references of the same property, this tool can be used to consolidate all these properties into a single command. When a STAAD file has a number of references of the same property, there is now a tool to consolidate all these properties into a single command. Clicking the Yes button, all instances of a given section property will be collated into a single property reference. |
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Cut Section | Opens the Section dialog, which is used to cut a section through the structure along a specified global plane at a desired location of the 3rd axis. | |
Node Tools > |
Duplicate Nodes |
Opens the Remove Duplicate Nodes dialog, which is used to set the tolerance distance between two nodes the program should consider as duplicate. Used for detecting the presence of two or more instances of the same node. |
Orphan Nodes | Highlights all nodes in the structure which are not connected to any member, element, or solid. | |
Remove Orphan Nodes | Used to remove all detected orphan nodes. | |
Node to Node Distance | Display the distance between nodes. | |
Remove Node to Node Distance | Used to remove the display of all node to node dimensions from the current view. | |
Beam Tools > |
Duplicate Beams |
Opens the Remove Duplicate Beams dialog, which is used to set the tolerance distance between two beams the program should consider as duplicate. Used for detecting the presence of two or more instances of the same beam. |
Zero Length |
Opens the Zero Length Tolerance dialog, which is used to set the tolerance for zero length members. A member connected between duplicate nodes, which have the same (X,Y,Z) coordinates, will have a length of zero. This tool detects such members. |
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Overlapping Collinear Members |
When two members are collinear, and further, at least one of the nodes of one of those members happens to lie within the span of the other, but the two members are not connected at that node, those two members are considered as overlapping collinear members. This tool detects such members. The usefulness of this tool comes from the fact that it enables you to detect modeling errors which are not easily visible. Two lines overlapping on the drawing area become indistinguishable on large models, and this is one of the tools that can spot such errors. |
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Beam Incidence | Used to reverse the incidence of selected beams so that the global coordinates of the end node are farther from the origin than that of the start node. | |
Dimension Beams | Display the dimension of the members in the structure. | |
Plate Tools > |
Duplicate Plates |
Opens the Remove Duplicate Plates dialog, which is used to set the tolerance distance between two plates the program should consider as duplicate. Used for detecting the presence of two or more instances of the same plate. |
Warped Plates | A warped plate is defined as a four-noded plate whose nodes do not lie on the same plane. This tool detects such plates. | |
Plate Connectivity | Checks the model for plates that overlap or intersect each other at their boundaries and, if found, opens the Overlapping Collinear Plates dialog. Typically, these overlaps cause improper load transfers or instabilities in the model. | |
Solid Tools > |
Negative Volume | Used to verify that the solid elements in their model have the proper sequence (order) of node numbering to prevent warnings in the output file of solids containing negative volumes. |
Warped Solids | Used to check if a solid element is warped. Warped solids cannot be analyzed and will produce errors in the output file. | |
Physical Member Restraints |
Used to automatically generate top and bottom
flange restraint conditions for the selected physical members.
Note: The
PBRACE command generated by this menu item is
valid only for
Member Design per AS
4100-1998 (Australian) steel design.
When selected, the program will search through all the nodes along the Physical Member and determine if any other beam is connected besides the beams in the current physical member definition. If another beam is present, a full restraint is placed on both the flanges. Otherwise, an unrestrained condition is imposed on both the flanges. |
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Groups |
Opens the Create Group dialog, which is used to cluster a set of joints, beams, plates or solids into a single entity identified by a distinct name. |