Interactive wall design enables review of the design results for any pier or spandrel and interactive changes to the design overwrites with immediate review of the revised results.
Access Interactive Wall Design as follows:
Select the Analyze menu > Run Analysis command to analyze the model.
Select the Design menu > Shear Wall Design > Start Design/Check command.
Right click on a pier or spandrel while the design results are displayed on it to enter the interactive design mode and interactively design the pier or spandrel using the Report Viewer showing the Pier Design report or the Spandrel Design report. If design results are not currently displayed, click the Design menu > Shear Wall Design > Interactive Design command and then right click a pier or spandrel to enter the interactive design mode for that pier or spandrel.
The Pier Report or Spandrel Report shown by the Report Viewer form displays flexural design, shear design, and boundary element check data. Modify the data using the forms accessed using the two buttons on the form:
Combos button Click the Combos button to access the Design Load Combination Selection form and make temporary revisions to the design load combinations considered for the pier or spandrel. This may be useful, for example, to temporarily change the considered design load combinations and then review the results. Because the changes made using this method are temporary, they are not saved when the form is closed, regardless of whether the OK or Cancel button is used to exit the form.
Overwrites button. Click the overwrites button to access and make revisions to the pier or spandrel overwrites and then immediately review the new design results. If some overwrites are modified in this mode and the Wall Pier Overwrites or Wall Spandrel Overwrites form is closed by clicking the OK button, the changes made to the overwrites are permanently saved.
Note that the Report Viewer has buttons to move through the pages of the report, to Zoom into the individual report pages, print the report, and save it to the Word compatible format.
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