Please follow the instructions provided below to add the pier cap.
| 1 | Navigate to Pier > Pier Cap |  |
| 2 | Click three-dots icon on the Location cell and select two support line (Pier2 & Pier3) according to project. | |
| 3 | The "Prismatic" section type selection will remain constant. |    |
| 4 | Click three-dots icon on the Prismatic Section cell and click Edit. | |
| 5 | Click three-dots icon on the Start Section cell and click Select for PC1 (1st Pier Cap). Select "HammerHeadSec" as the Starting Section. Also click three-dots icon on the End Section cell and click Select. Select "HammerHeadSec" as the End Section. | |
| 6 | Enter Section Length as 63 along Y-Y starting from right . |  |
| 7 | Repeat the same steps from 2 to 5 for PC2 (2nd Pier Cap) as in the figure. Enter Section Length as 17 and 20 along Y-Y starting from right . |  |
| 8 | Navigate back to pier cap, set Slope Option as Alignment. |  |
| 9 | Enter Top Elevation Offset from Alignment [ft] value. | |
| 10 | Enter Transverse Offset [ft] value. | |
| 11 | Go to FEM tab and select a section for Rigid Section. |  |
Offset values use PGL as the reference point.  |
Follow the below steps to copy and paste all inputs from our data set.
Go to Pier Cap under Pier on the tree view. |
Copy End Bent from model inputs and paste into OpenBrIM. |
Go to FEM under Pier on the tree view. |
Copy FEM data from model inputs and paste into OpenBrIM. |
The Pier Caps that have been created are illustrated below.
Copy the desired data with the automatic copy button in the upper left corner. Click on the first cell in and use the Ctrl+V shortcut to paste.  
If icon won’t appear, collapse page tree menu by clicking on arrow or using shortcut “[”.  While pasting large data, it would be handy to turn of Auto-refresh . 
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Pier Cap | |
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Pier Cap | FEM |
PC1 Pier2 Prismatic [[756, HammerHeadSec, HammerHeadSec]] NULL 40 Alignment 0.2 -9 -15 PC2 Pier3 Prismatic [[204, HalfHammerHeadSec2, HalfHammerHeadSec2],[240, HalfHammerHeadSec2, HalfHammerHeadSec1]] HammerHeadSec 40 Alignment 0.2 -9 0 | PC1 Yes RigidSection [] PC2 Yes RigidSection [] |
Section Data | |
Prismatic Section for PC1 | Prismatic Section for PC2 |
63 HammerHeadSec HammerHeadSec | 17 HalfHammerHeadSec2 HalfHammerHeadSec2 20 HalfHammerHeadSec2 HalfHammerHeadSec1 |
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