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Unable to see radial grid lines

david terry — Fri, 01 Jul 2016 16:41:09 GMT

Upon creating a radial grid and selecting it on my floor type nothing happened, very confused I tried an orthogonal grid and it shows up fine. The radial and the circular grids I tried creating simply don't appear. My coworker replicated this in about 60 seconds starting a new model, generating a quick ortho and then generating a quick radial and he has the same problem, ortho appears, radial is no where in sight.

Has anyone else experienced this problem or even found a solution?

EDIT: Answer found. Though, you only need 1 radial and 1 circular grid defined to make it appear. Also, I supplied a max distance when I defined the radial grid, that should be able to supersede the necessity of having a circular grid defined. A small workaround is if you make the circular grid distance 0 and name the grid " " [space], but unfortunately the bubble still shows up right in the very middle, but that's a minor eyesore.

Can "Design All" actually design "all"?

david terry — Fri, 07 Aug 2015 01:31:59 GMT

When clicking Design All (In the steel beam module) it clearly states "designing all unsized beams". The problem with that is that I want it to design my sized beams as well! I applied the actual member sizes that are currently shown (w12x19, w21x44, HSS....., etc.) to all of my members, but I need them design still; camber, studs, etc. Right now the design all gives me 191 errors and almost every single one is "not enough studs" because it did not design my composite beams that I gave a size.

Applying a size is not designing a member, everything else still needs to be determined, the loads figure out and the cambers and studs assigned. I however, do not want to have to click every one of my members, scroll around the correct member size and then click analyze, update database for 100 members; shouldn't that be the intent of the Design All button?

Thank you for any tips or tricks that help me.