To System Main Material

USER Main Material to System Main Material ( Home & 3D & 2D)

Tool summary :

Lists members in your model whose main material is USER. Select on that list those members whose main material you want to change to SYSTEM.
' ' " Main material " can be changed to ' ' on beams, columns, vertical braces or horizontal braces. User main material is sometimes called graphical main material.
A member has graphical main material, for example, when somebody has cut the main material using Cut Layout or another tool, or when the main material has been edited using the Rolled Section Material window.
Graphical main material is not altered during connection design , whereas the connection design program may cope or bevel cut non-graphical system main material as needed to accommodate the connection.

Also see :

Report Writer: Member.Conditions.MarkedAsGraphicAltered
Status Display: Detailing and processing > Graphically altered members

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Step-by-step instructions :

1 . Do any of the following to invoke USER Main Material to System Main Material :

Method 1 : Home > Utilities > Utility Functions > Change Options > USER Main Material to System Main Material .

Method 2 : Click the USER Main Material to System Main Material icon, which is pictured above. The icon can be taken from the group named ' Edit -- Change Options ' and placed on a toolbar (classic) or the ribbon (lightning).

Method 3 : If the " Modeling layout style " or " Drawing Editor layout style " is ' Classic ', you can use the menu system to choose Edit > Change Options > USER Main Material to System Main Material .

Method 4, 5 & 6 : USER Main Material to System Main Material can also be configured to be invoked using a keyboard shortcut , the context menu , or a mode . For the lightning interface, this configuration is done using Customize Interface .

2 . After you invoke this Change option, a selection dialog opens. On it is a list of members on which the main material has been made graphical. Since you cannot perform this operation on members that have their " Model complete date " set, such members do not appear on the list. Each member is listed by its member number [num] and piecemark.

[15] B_14

[57] C_5

[69] HB_71

[99] VB_83

When you press " OK ," the " Main material " of the selected members is reset to '

2a (optional) : Note that a " Print " button is available on this selection dialog so that you can print the list of members with graphical main material if you like. To list all members with graphical main material, you can " Show All ."

2b : Select the member(s) you want to have system main material, then press " OK ."

3 . The main material of the member(s) that you selected in step 2b is designated as system. On their edit windows, " Main material " reads ' '. All affected members are marked for Process and Create Solids .

Note: The next time you Process & Create Solids , that program will erase the user modifications (cuts) to the selected members' main material and redesign the main material. Add Hole or Add Bolt or Add Material operations to the main material are not affected.