Save your preferred connection configurations in the connection library for later use.
Every time a connection is created, Advance Steel searches if the same combination of element section class and size is already in the library. If it finds a match, it will apply the settings stored against that entry in the library. This way you do not have to go through setting many parameters every time you place the connection.
- If there is more than one possible match in the library for the current connection, the first match from the table is used.
- If no match is found in the library, a dialog box displays a warning message: "Template values not found. Take defaults of the connection".
Note: There is no link between the connection parameters and the library. You may change the settings in the library, without affecting the other already created connections. "Copy by template" and "Copy by template, multiple" do not use the connection library, these commands copy the parameters of a selected connection.
Tip: To turn off the message dialog box, change the corresponding default in the Management Tools application 
Defaults General Message box when template values not found.
Defaults General Message box when template values not found.
Access the Connection Library
You can access the Library from the connection properties dialog box, Library tab. The Library tab includes a table with columns for every parameter within the connection. Each line of the table corresponds to a saved connection.
Use the Connection Library
Add new settings to the library
- Create the connection and set the parameters according to your requirements.
- Display the connection properties and make the necessary settings.
- On the Library tab, click the Save values button.
- A new line is added to the table.
To use a saved set of parameters for a new connection
- Start the Connection Vault.
- Select the connection you want to create.
- Select the elements to be connected in the required order and create the connection. The connection properties dialog box appears.
- Go to the Library tab.
- From the table, click the line corresponding to your choice.
- The parameters are applied instantly.