Materials

Use the Materials dialog to assign materials to sections selected from the list of active sections (the list under the Assign to sections option).

Access

Dialog elements

The top of the Materials dialog has a list of available materials. A list of sections is displayed below. The display consists of 2 columns: labels of defined sections and the materials assigned to them. The list in the Materials dialog is the same as the one in the Sections dialog.

The top of the dialog has the following buttons:

Note: If you define a material using a name that already exists in the material database and save it to an *.RTD file, when you open the file in Robot, the material parameters are read from the *.RTD file and not from the material database.

To assign a material to a section:

  1. Select the appropriate tab (Steel, Concrete or All).
  2. Click the section.
  3. Select the appropriate material from the list of materials.
  4. Click Apply.

The material is assigned to the bars when assigning sections.