After you have defined the plate girder dimensions, use the Welds tab to define parameters and dimensions for welds between plate girder elements (web and front flange, web and back flange, web and plates/ribs, as shown in details A, B, and C).
At the bottom of the dialog is the Use template selection field, which contains user-defined templates (schemes) of plate girders (columns). After you define plate girder geometry, you can save the settings by typing a name in the Use template field and clicking Save as template. In the future, after you begin to define a plate girder (column), you can select the name of a saved template so that all its parameters will be applied to the new plate girder.
Use the buttons at the bottom of the dialog:
- Apply - after you click this, the plate girder defined in the dialog is generated on screen without closing the dialog. This lets you check whether the plate girder has been generated correctly.
- OK - click this to generate the defined plate girder and close the dialog.
- Hide - after you click this, the dialog is no longer visible on screen. To restore the dialog display on screen, press Esc.
- Close - click this to close the dialog without generating a plate girder.