General instructions > Inserting footing elements

Inserting footing elements

With SteinP 3DT you can insert 3 different type of footing elements:

1. Rectangular footing

2. Circular footing

3. Footing with arbitrary shape

You can access these elements either from the Insert menu or for the toolbar buttons as shown on the following picture.

Rectangular footing definition

1. Click on the Add rectangular footing button on the tool-bar.

2. Move the mouse cursor inside the paper area. Please notice that the mouse pointer is now a small cross.

3. Click on a point from where you wish to begin drawing.

4. Move the mouse to a second point where the footing will end. Notice that in the status bar the software informs you of the current width and length of the footing.

5. Click again to define the end point of the footing.

6. The following dialog will appear.

7. Enter the footing pressure and an optional description of the footing element. Click the OK button.

8. You can now see the footing in your page area. The red line informs you that you did not specify any soil layers yet.

9. The software is now ready to insert a new rectangular footing as above. You can quit this mode if you press the ESCAPE key on your keyboard or right click somewhere outside the inserted footings.

Note

At any time you can alter a footings properties if you double click on it. For this to happen please make sure that the current active layer is the Footing Layer. If it is not then you can click on the Working layer button on the tool-bar and from the pop-up menu that appears select Footing layer. As an alternative you may right click somewhere outside any element and from the pop-up menu that will appear select Footing layer.

Circular footing definition

1. Click on the Add circular footing button on the tool-bar.

2. Move the mouse cursor inside the paper area. Please notice that the mouse pointer is now a small cross.

3. Click on a point from where you wish to begin drawing. This point will be the center of the circular footing.

4. Move the mouse to a second point where the footing will end. Notice that in the status bar the software informs you of the current radii of the footing.

5. Click again to define the end point of the footing.

6. The following dialog appears.

7. Enter the footing pressure and an optional description of the footing element. Click the OK button.

8. You can now see the footing in your page area.

Arbitrary footing definition

1. Click on the Add polygon footing button on the tool-bar.

2. Move the mouse cursor inside the paper area. Please notice that the mouse pointer is now a small cross.

3. Click on a point from where you wish to begin drawing.

4. Move the mouse to a second point to define a corner for the footing (a segment). Notice that in the status bar the software informs you of the segment length and the angle of inclination.

5. Click as many times needed to define all footing corners.

6. You can close the polygon footing at any time if you press the right mouse button. You can also close the footing if you click on the first point entered.

7. The following dialog appears.

8. Enter the footing pressure and an optional description of the footing element. Click the OK button.

9. You can now see the footing in your page area.

Note

When there are no soil layers defined, all footing elements will be drawn with a red line.