Preferred Flat Bar Sizes

The flat bar sizes in this screen are entered to apply flat bar to user added plates or to design beam stiffeners, single-plate shear connections, end plate connections, back-up bars for welded moment connections, or material plate washers.

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Editing the Preferred Flat Bar Sizes list
To change a flat bar listing:	Click to select the previous entry, then type a flat bar section (e.g., FL1x1-0where 1 is the bar thickness and 1-0 is the bar width ).
To add a new flat bar:	Click in the first empty cell, then type a flat bar section.
To delete a flat bar from the list:	Double-click to select the previous entry, then press Backspace to clear the flat bar size or click to select the section size and right-click and select " Delete selected row(s) ".

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.
Save ( ) saves a file 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. Load ( ) replaces the settings on this screen with the settings that are stored in the file that 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.

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

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

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

Settings applied here are for your current Fabricator. Each Fabricator in your current Job is a different collection of settings. This allows you to change to a different set of Standard Fabricator Connections each time you " Change Fabricator."
If connection design substitutes a flat from this list for a rectangular plate, the material's piecemark is assigned a flat bar " Piecemark Prefix " from Member and Material Piecemarking and the material is given a flat bar " Description ," which is applied to the member bill of material during auto detailing . However, the material is still editable as a Rectangular Plate in Modeling .
If adequately sized material is not found on the Preferred Flat Bar Sizes list, connection design calculates the size of plate required and uses that size instead.
For flat bar "end plate" connections, connection design does not use the Home > Project Settings > Fabricator > Standard Fabricator Connections > End Plate Settings > " Horizontal edge distance ," but instead uses the minimum edge distance at rolled edges from the third column of Table J3.4 or Table J3.4M, or from equivalent tables for other design methods .
Regardless of the choice made in Project Settings to " Force flat bar description to use smaller of length & width ", the program will look at both the " Material width " and the " Material length " of a flat bar when it is first added as a material or miscellaneous member to see if one of those values plus the " Material Thickness " match a listing on this screen. If there is a listing that matches, that listing is used as the flat bar's " Description ."

Flat bar (type of material you can enter to this screen's list)
End plate (may be designed with bar stock)
Single-plate shear (may be designed with bar stock)
Force flat bar description to use smaller of length & width ( Fab Setup > Mem & Material Piecemarking > the " Submaterial " tab > )
Create solids for back-up bars in modeling ( Home > Project Settings > Job > Moment Plate Design Settings > )
Minimum thickness (flats less than this not used for shear plates)
XXXXX . BarStockFoundForPlate ( Report Writer )
BarStockFoundForPlate (parametric model module)