Create a Structural Model

In this tutorial, you learn how to create a structural axis and stories on which you define your structure.

This tutorial guides you through the following tasks.

• Add columns, beams, walls, and a floor with openings for the shafts.
• Copy elements to other stories.
• Change the columns of the top floor from reinforced concrete to steel.
• Add beams from column to column.

This tutorial should take about 30 minutes.

The final version of the structure is shown below.

Click here to start this tutorial.

Task List

1. Create the Structural Axis and Stories.. Learn how to create a structural axis as the basis for the column grid and how to add stories for the levels of the building.
2. Add Columns. Learn how to add columns, and how to copy them to additional places.
3. Add Beams, and Walls. Learn how to add beams, and walls. You also learn how to select and filter elements so that you can delete any unneeded columns.
4. Create a Floor and Floor Opening. Learn how to add a floor and then how to add openings in the floor.
5. Copy Elements to Additional Stories. Learn how to use the Object Inspector to copy the content of a story to other stories.
6. Make Changes to the Top Story. Learn how to select elements using the Object Inspector and other methods and how to change the top structural columns to steel.
7. Add Beams. Learn how to add and copy beams for the roof of the building.
8. Summary. Congratulations! You have completed this tutorial.