Erection View Cleanup

Member Type Filter

Member type filter: Select the member types to which the settings will apply. Settings will not be applied to any unchecked member type.

Note: Only the selected member types are shown when this window is open.

General Settings

Member visibility: or

When this box is checked, the member lines are displayed.

Member style: Stick or Wire or Solid. This determines the drawing style for the member(s).

Stick draws a single line along the member’s workline and uses the Member orientation indicator selection to determine how the indicators are displayed.

Wire draws the materials that make up the member(s) with lines showing the geometrical shape.

Solid draws the materials that make up the member(s) to their true geometric shape and shades them according to their Surface finish.

Wire-style hidden lines: Removed or Dashed or Solid. When Member style is set to Wire, these options determine how hidden lines are drawn.

Removed hides lines that are covered by other steel in a view.

Dashed displays the lines that are covered by other steel as dashed lines.

Solid displays all lines as solid lines.

Line type: When Steel member style is set to Stick or Stick + wire, this option determines the line type of the member line.

Pen number: When Steel member style is set to Stick or Stick + wire, this option determines the pen color of the member line.

Tip: If you re-detail this 2D erection view, the choice you make here will be retained in the new drawing if you leave Reset member line pens not checked.

Note: Assigning a pen number tells your printer how to draw an item. You can set line thickness for each drawing pen in Home > Project Settings > Fabricator > Detailing > Line Weights.

Wire line type: When Steel member style is set to Wire or Stick + wire, this option determines the pen color of the wire shape.

Tip: If you re-detail this erection view, the choice you make here will be retained in the new drawing if you leave Reset member line pens not checked.

Wire pen number: When Steel member style is set to Wire or Stick + wire, this option determines the pen color of the wire shape lines.

Tip: If you re-detail this 2D erection view, the choice you make here will be retained in the new drawing if you leave Reset member line pens not checked.

Note: Assigning a pen number tells your printer how to draw an item. You can set line thickness for each drawing pen in Home > Project Settings > Fabricator > Detailing > Line Weights.

Show hatching: or

When this box is checked, hatching is shown if Show concrete hatching was checked when you detailed the erection view.

Show stair outline: or

Show ... Show ...

When Steel member style is set to Stick and this box is checked the stair displays the stringers, tread nosings, and risers.

Tip: Stair member lines and stair outlines are controlled independently. To show just the outlines of stringers, risers, and nosings for stairs you select, check Show stair outline and uncheck Member visibility.

Detail Erection Views: If the option to Show stair outline was on at the time an erection view drawing was auto detailed, then stringers, treads, and risers will be shown along with the stair member line.

Show member orientation indicator: or

Show ... Show ...

When this box is checked, the member orientation indicators are shown.

Tip: You can click and drag the MOI to relocate it.

MOI scale: 1 or a decimal fraction or a decimal multiple of 1.

scale = 1 scale = 0.8   scale = 1.2

When the MOI scale is 1, the MOI is drawn to the actual dimensions of the member's main material that are specified in the local shape file.

A decimal fraction (such as 0.5 or 0.25) shrinks the MOI to that fraction of its original size

A decimal multiple (such as 1.2 or 1.5) expands the MOI to that multiple of its original size.

Member number: read-only. This shows the member number when a single member is edited.

Piecemark: read-only. This shows the member piecemark when a single member is edited.

Moment symbol: System or Hidden or Shown. This applies when the Steel member style is Stick or Stick + wire and the member is a beam.

System displays a moment symbol on the end of the member if the member has a Bolted or Welded Moment type connection on that end.

Hidden hides the moment symbol on the end of the member.

Shown displays a moment symbol on the end of the member regardless of the connection in Modeling.

You can also select the display color for the symbol for members that have a symbol shown.

Tip: If you want the symbol closer to or farther from the end, you can drag it along the member line.

Shear tab symbol: System or Hidden or Near side or Far side. This applies when the Steel member style is Stick or Stick + wire and the member is a beam. A shear plate side indicator is associated with the supported beam's member line and is placed to show which side of the supported beam's web the shear plate attaches to.

System displays a shear plate in stick form on the end of the beam if the member has a single-plate Shear connection.

Hidden hides the shear plate side indicator on that beam's end.

Near side displays a shear plate side indicator on the near side of the beam.

Far side displays a shear plate side indicator on the far side of the beam.

Also see: Show shear tab location on erection views

Label Settings

Label type: Select one or more label types to adjust their settings. Any custom property with Erection View Member Labels checked will appear in this list.

Tip: To select multiple label types, either left-click and drag your mouse cursor over the desired labels, or hold the Ctrl key while clicking each label you want to edit.

Label Visibility: or

When this box is checked, the selected label types will be displayed.

Note: The icons ( or ) next to the label type indicate whether or not the label is visible.

Font: Any font that is listed can be selected.

Font style: The Bold, Bold Italic, Italic, or Regularstyle of the Font. Different fonts may have different styles available to them.

Also see: Home > Project Settings > Fabricator > Detailing > Drawing Presentaton > Fonts

Pen number: determines the pen color of the selected labels.

Also see: Home > Project Settings > Fabricator > Detailing > Line Weights

Break lines: or

When this box is checked, the label(s) will break a line (when Breakable is checked), or a dimension leg (when Breakable dimension leg(s) is checked)

Auto position: or

When this box is checked, the label(s) will be relocated back to the location specified in Erection View Member Labels. The Character height, Rotation, and Origin will be reset back to their defaults.

Note: This box is uncheckedautomatically when you drag a piecemark or relocate it in some other way. The same is also true when you Ctrl -drag a piecemark to rotate it around its origin.

Also see: Relocate piecemarks and other member labels to default locations

Character height: The height (in millimeters) of the label's text. This option is deactivated when Auto position is checked.

Note: The default character height for piecemarks in erection views -- both 2D and 3D -- comes from the Drawing Presentation setup option Piecemark character height.

Character width:  The width/height(in millimeters) of the label's text.

Note: The default width/height ratio for piecemarks in erection views -- both 2D and 3D -- comes from the Drawing Presentation setup option Piecemark width/height ratio.

Rotation:  A positive or negative number of degrees, -360 to 360.

Tip: You can Ctrl and drag a label to rotate it around its origin. Ctrl + Shift and drag rotates the label at 45 degree increments.

Origin: Top left or Top center or Top right or Bottom left or Bottom center or Bottom right. Labels are justified with respect to their origin point.

The position of these form buttons on the screen tells you what settings they apply to. Click here for more information. You can Copy the settings on this screen, then Paste those settings to a different screen of the same type. You can Save the settings on this screen to a global folder that is used by your current version of SDS2. Give the file a name that will help other users identify its purpose. You can Load a saved file to replace the settings on this screen with the settings that are stored in the file you select. When editing multiple screens at the same time, Paste and Load replace mixed entries to a single field with a single entry. Copy and Save ignore fields with mixed entries, treating them as if they have no entry or do not exist.

Reset undoes all changes made to this screen since you first opened it. The screen remains open.

OK (or the Enter key) closes this screen and applies the settings.

Cancel (or the Esc key) closes this screen without saving any changes.