Surface Finishes

Job Default Surface Finish

Surface Finish:None or Sandblasted or Red oxide or Yellow zinc or Gray oxide or Blued steel or Galvanized or Undefined 1 or Undefined 2 or Undefined 3 or Red Oxide 2 or Duplex Coating or Any user added surface finish. The finish that you select affects any newly added members in the model.

Status Display: Material Status > Material Surface Finish
Report Writer: MemberMaterial.Material.SurfaceFinish
Report Writer: Member.Settings.SurfaceFinish
Advanced Selection: m.Finish
Advanced Selection: m.Finish_abbr

BOM Format

BOM Format: Add to All Material Lines Only or Add to All Lines (Member and Material) or Add to Line 1 Only (Member). This option applies when Add to BOM is checked ( ) for the applied surface finish. This will affect where the surface finish is shown inside of the Bill of Material.

Add to All Material Lines Only places what data is set inside the Abbreviation of the finish to each of the material lines inside of the bill of material.

Add to All Lines (Member and Material) places what data is set inside the Abbreviation of the finish to each of the material lines as well as the member line inside of the bill of material.

Add to Line 1 Only (Member) places what data is set inside the Abbreviation of the finish on the member line inside of the bill of material.

Surface Finish Table

Hide: or . This option sets whether or not a surface finish will be available in the selection list in the model.

If this box is checked ( ), the surface finish is not available to select in the model.

If the box is not checked ( ), the member will not be flagged as galvanized. The Galvanizing Check Tool will not work on such members.

Display Name: Any text string to denote the name of the surface finish (e.g., Red Oxide, Sandblasted, Galvanized, Peter, whatever name you want). Surface finishes entered here are selectable in Modeling wherever surface finishes are selectable (Member and material edit windows).

Note: The first 12 in this list cannot be altered.

Abbreviation: Any text string to denote how the name of the surface finish is displayed in the Bill of Material, and different exports (3D model and MRP exports).

Note: MRP exports will use this abbreviation if it is changed by the user. Exports like KISS that have always exported simplified nomenclature for the finishes will remain doing so, unless the user manually changes the abbreviations for the default finishes here.

Report Writer: MemberMaterial.Material.SurfaceFinishAbbrev
Report Writer: Member.Settings.SurfaceFinishAbbrev
Advanced Selection: m.Finish
Advanced Selection: m.Finish_abbr

Galvanized: or . This option will apply galvanizing options to any surface finish that has this check box checked.

If this box is checked ( ), the Finish of all shop and field bolts will be set to either Mechanically galvanized or Hot dipped galvanized, depending on the choice made to Bolt finish on the Galvanizing Settings screen. The option for Break Marks Member will be checked on and cannot be unchecked. If Automatically break-apart galvanized members is checked in Galvanizing Settings, this will also set the member to Break apart (unless the member is a joist or legacy miscellaneous member). You can run the Galvanizing Check Tool to perform various checks on the galvanized member.

If the box is not checked ( ), the surface finish will not be flagged as galvanized and the Galvanizing Check Tool will not work on such members and materials.

Report Writer: MemberMaterial.Material.SurfaceFinishIsGalvanized
Report Writer: Member.Settings.SurfaceFinishIsGalvanized
Report Writer: Member.Conditions.Galvanized
Advanced Selection: m.Galvanized

Preparation Process: Any text string to denote what preparation or cleaning may need to be done for the surface finish. This value will primarily be used for reports. This value will not be used in breaking apart piecemarks.

Report Writer: MemberMaterial.Material.SurfaceFinishPrep
Report Writer: Member.Settings.SurfaceFinishPrep

Source: Any text string to denote where the surface finish materials are supplied from. This value will primarily be used for reports. This value will not be used in breaking apart piecemarks.

Report Writer: MemberMaterial.Material.SurfaceFinishSource
Report Writer: Member.Settings.SurfaceFinishSource

Add to BOM: or . This option sets whether or not the surface finish will be listed in the bill of material.

If this box is checked ( ), then the surface finish will be placed inside of the bill of material. The string entered in the abbreviation field is how the surface finish will appear in the bill of material.

If the box is not checked ( ), the surface finish will not be shown in the bill of material.

Note: Surface Finishes must have an active plot order in the Bill of Material Layout for this finish to show in the bill of material.

Break Marks Member: or . The choice made here directly affects the piecemarks of members based on the surface finish applied.

If this box is checked ( ), members that are otherwise identical are assigned different member piecemarks if they are set to any of the surface finishes with the Break Marks Member check box checked.

If the box is not checked ( ), identical members that have different surface finishes are combined under the same member piecemark (unless Break Marks Material is checked).

Note: Ideally this should be set before members are added in a new project. If you do change this setting after you have already added members, you should run Verify and Fix to ensure continuity of member piecemarking within your Job.

Report Writer: Member.Settings.SurfaceFinishBreakMajor

Break Marks Material: or . The choice made here directly affects the submaterial of members based on the surface finish applied.

If this box is checked ( ), materials that are otherwise identical are assigned different submaterial marks if they are set to any of the surface finishes with the Break Marks Material check box checked. If these material marks are Standard Piecemarks, then the suffix will be applied to allow the standard mark to still be applied.

If the box is not checked ( ), identical materials that have different surface finishes are combined under the same submaterial marks.

Note: Ideally this should be set before members are added in a new project. If you do change this setting after you have already added members, you should run Verify and Fix to ensure continuity of piecemarking within your Job.

Report Writer: MemberMaterial.Material.SurfaceFinishBreakMinor

Suffix Minor Mark: This option ONLY applies to Standard Piecemarks. This applies when Break marks material is checked. It affects the submaterial marks of members. This is up to a four character text string that is appended to the end of the minor mark.

The Suffix Minor Mark is filled out for Sandblasted as SB.

This base plate has the surface finish set as Sandblasted. Looking at the Piecemark: it shows as bp1_SB showing the minor mark has appended the SB for the surface finish to the end.

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.