Use this option to define walls in a structure model. Beams are inserted in horizontal plans of an active story (in the top view).
To define a ring beam, select one of the following options:
- Menu: Formwork Drawings > Define > Ring Beam
- Ribbon: ASD - Model > Elements > Ring Beam
- Toolbar: Define > Ring Beam
- Command line: RBCX_DEF_RING_BEAM.
The following dialog displays then.
The dialog has the following tabs:
For Priority enter a value that defines the priority of interpenetration (cutting to fit) of structure elements that overlap with each other.
Use the icons on the right to select a mode of graphic definition for the ring beam.
A ring beam can be defined as:
- rectilinear ring beam: click
and specify the beginning and end points of a rectilinear ring beam in a plan of a building story - curved ring beam: click
and define 3 successive points of an arc belonging to a ring beam in a plan of a building story - click
and define a ring beam as above an already-defined wall.
Click Select 
to convert selected arcs and open polylines to ring beams.
Click Inherit properties 
to inherit parameters from a previously defined ring beam.
Select Linear element to define a ring beam as a linear element. The length of a linear element is a total length of all segments with the same cross-section; these segments are treated as linear elements.