HOW TO CHANGE ORIENTATION OF THE COLUMN IN RCDC ?

IF I ASSIGNED A COLUMN SUPPOSE 300 X 600 IN COLUMN IN STAAD AND NOW IF I WANT TO CHNAGE ORIENTAION IN THE RCDC, HOW TO DO THIS AND WHY RCDC GROUP 600 X300 COLUMN AND 300 X 600 COLUMN IN SAME GROUP IT SHOULD GROUP DIFFRENTLY RCDC ONLY GROUP COLUMN ON THE BASIS OF THE SIZE AND REINFORCEMT BUT IT SHOULD GROUP ON THE BASIS OF THE ORIENTATION ..

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  • Hello Rahul,

    May I know the reason why you are changing the orientation of columns in RCDC? RCDC being a design software always use the analysis results from STAAD. So, any changes which will affect the analysis results like changing dimensions, orientations etc. should be done at STAAD end and the model should be analyzed to use in RCDC. RCDC will read the analysis results and accordingly design the section. So, if you model the columns correctly in STAAD, there is no need to change orientation in RCDC. Changing orientation in RCDC only will lead to wrong results.

    Regarding the grouping, there are 2 options like Autogrouping and manual grouping. For Auto-grouping RCDC will group all the columns regardless  of orientation if the reinforcement is same for both the columns. However, if you want them to be grouped separte, you can create your own groups using the option marked below and get the intended results.

    Thanks & Regards,
    Abhisek Mandal
    Global Technical Support

  • then again have go in STAAD and change orientation and column or size of column then what is the use of RCDC to only generates the dwgs.? And about the grouping of the column RCDC as per the orientation of the column RCDC should group and assign a separate name for the column it will save a lot of time of us.

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