Beam

Click the Beam ( ) button from the toolbar. Click the Beam Settings ( ) button from the appearing secondary toolbar. You can enter the beam dimensions to the beam width and height data boxes in the general settings tab in the appearing dialog. Since the beams here will be in 25/50 dimensions, correct them if they are not so (write 0.25/0.50 respectively).

Click the Structural/RC tab. Write 625 in the Wall Load data box. Thus, the beams to be drawn will be in 25/50 dimensions and have 625 kg/m wall load.

Click OK. The dialog will be closed and the mouse cursor will get in beam mode.

Move the mouse cursor on the column C1. When the cursor takes OK form, click the left button. Bring the mouse cursor on the column C2 now and press space bar when you see the OK sign. You will see that the drawing axis of the beam will change. After the beam becomes up-defined (you can follow the message from the info bar below on the screen) left-click again. The 1st beam will be generated. Move the cursor on the column C3 (the cursor should return to OK in every case) and left-click. The 2nd beam will be generated. Move the cursor on the column C6 and press space-bar. Left-click when the beam becomes defined from the lower edge. Move the cursor on the column C9 and left-click. Move the cursor on the column C8 and left-click. Move the cursor on the column C7 and left-click. Move the cursor on the column C4, press space-bar and left-click after the beam becomes up-defined. Move the cursor on the column C1 and left-click. Press Esc from the keyboard. The cursor will exit the beam drawing mode.

Right-click the mouse and click Repeat Last Command from the appearing menu. Move the cursor on the column C4 and left-click. Then move the cursor on the column C5, press space-bar several times and left-click after the beam becomes defined from the middle axis. Move the cursor on the column C6 and left-click. Press Esc from the keyboard. The cursor will exit the beam mode.

Right-click the mouse and click Repeat Last Command from the appearing menu. Move the cursor on the column C8 and left-click Move the cursor on the column C5 and left-click and move the cursor on the column C2 and left-click . Right-click the mouse and click cancel from the appearing menu. All the beams have been drawn.

Let us arrange the beam ID’s as they are on the formwork plan. Click Name Objects from the assist menu. Write B1 in the appearing dialog and click OK. Click on the beams in the order they are in the above formwork plan. The clicked beams will be selected. (If you make wrong selection, you can cancel the selection by a second click on the related beam.) After selecting all beams, press enter from the keyboard. The beams will be named according to the selection sequence.

Let us change the wall loads on the inner beams as 375 kg/m.

Click the beams B3, B4, B9, B10 and select them.

Hold down the shift key from the keyboard and click the right button of the mouse on any selected beam. Click Properties from the appearing menu. Click the Structural/RC tab from the beam settings dialog displayed. Write 375 for wall load and click OK.

Clue: the process described in the 2nd paragraph can also be done as; click the Object Edit icon. Click the Structural/RC tab from the beam settings dialog displayed. Write 375 for wall load and click OK.