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Figure 1

Figure 1 illustrates the default material definitions for slab, column and slab rebar that serve as prerequisites for slab and beam analysis.

Copy From

→ To copy drawings, properties, and more from another story, click on the "Copy From" button (Figure 1).

→ Select the objects you want to copy and choose a source story (Figure 2).

The "Select Graphically" button overlays the selected objects, allowing users to manually select individual objects from the drawing space. The "Copy All" button copies all the objects that have been selected in the checkbox.

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Overlay

→ To bring the uploaded reference drawings assigned to a story in the Stories sections as background, click on the "Overlay" button (Figure 1).

Select the objects and the corresponding reference drawings assigned to the stories, then click the "OK" button (Figure 3) to overlay the drawings.

Update Similar Stories

→ Click on the "Update Similar Stories" button (Figure 4) to duplicate the objects of the current story to other stories.

→ Select structural objects to copy from the current story in the checkbox (Figure 4).

→ Select the stories to paste in the checkbox (Figure 4).

The user has the option to either override the objects to be pasted with the existing ones or keep the existing ones at the same location (Figure 5).

→ Click on the "Check Floor Points" button (Figure 1) to align the edges of the objects. This helps improve the mesh quality generated during the analysis.