3.2 Slab Design

Follow the next steps to perform Slab Design Setting

1	Go to Slab Design from tree view. Set Analysis Source to “AECBolt” and “CSISafe”. By choosing this way, whichever value is more critical in the analysis results, BDS will design according to that result.
2	Go to “Slab Design Template” under General from same spreadsheet. Set Slab Design Template for 1st floor.
3	Go to 1st Floor under Slab Design. Set the Design Template to "Slab Design Template -1".
4	Go to Corner Zones under General from same spreadsheet. Corner zones must be present in order to draw stress lines from Sherwall. Click "Generate Corner Zone" button. Created by Corner Zone CAD view.
5	CAD view
6	Go to Stress Lines at same spreadsheet. Click the "Run Stress Line Generation" button to generate stress lines.
7	CAD view
8	Based on the analysis results, we may want to delete some stress lines because we don't need them all. Click “Show Strip Button” and select both direction. The bottom of the stress lines are covered with analysis results on CAD view.
9	CAD view
10	Click “Refine Stress Line” button and select direction both. BDS gives a suggestion as to which of the drawn stress lines are redundant and should be deleted. And delete selected. This is just suggestion, you can choose less or more lines. If the analysis result does not cover under the stress lines, there is no need to placement the stress line at that location.
11	CAD view BDS recommended stress lines to delete Extra stress lines to be deleted given by Design Engineer

You can proceed to the “Top Reinforcement” section.