Drawing parameters - General

Select Analysis > Drawing or click (Drawing parameters) and then select the General tab.

The first letters of the standard names of templates provided with the program refer respectively to:

bm - beams

cl - columns

sf - foundations

sl - slabs

wl - deep beams.

All standard templates (*.plo) are located in the CFG folder. In order to modify an existing drawing template or open a new template, click (...) next to the Edit template option. It runs the PLOEDIT drawing template editor program.

Once a template is selected a preview displays to the right of the dialog.

If Cantilevers as separate spans is enabled, then cantilevers defined for either a beam or a deep beam will be treated as a beam span. Otherwise, cantilevers will be presented together with the closest span.

Apart from template selection, you can set the mode of creating a drawing.

Select the first mode (Open new) to present only the drawing of the selected concrete element or the list of elements. Each time a drawing is called, the former drawing is removed.

Select Add drawing in list mode to change the function and operation of drawings. If selected, a drawing will not be removed when a new drawing is opened. It will be added to a common list. This option is designed to allow you to compose drawings of different elements and to arrange them in a common, large-format sheet.

Select Stop drawing generation if calculation errors appear to halt the generation of drawings if critical calculation errors occur.

In the lower part of the dialog, units for drawing elements may be selected.