Footing Steps [RW]

Where adjacent wall segments are founded at different elevations, the footing must step between them. The Footing Steps object generates that step automatically from the bottom-of-footing difference between the segments it is given.

General

Wall Segments: The wall segments the steps are generated between. Steps are created wherever the bottom-of-footing elevation changes by more than the tolerance below.

Step Material: Concrete material assigned to the generated steps.

BOF Difference Tolerance: Minimum bottom-of-footing elevation difference between adjacent segments before a step is generated. Differences smaller than this are ignored (default: 1).

Step Length Override: Overrides the computed longitudinal length of the step. Leave at 0 to let the length be derived from the elevation difference (default: 0).

Display

Show Steps [NO=0/YES=1]: When YES, the generated steps are drawn in the 3D view (default: YES=1).

Opacity: Opacity used when drawing the steps in the 3D view (default: 0.85).

FEA

Generate FEM [NO=0/YES=1]: Setting this to NO disables the analytical representation of the steps (default: YES=1).

Quantities

Total Footing-Step Concrete Volume: Concrete volume of all generated steps. (Read-only)

Total Footing-Step Concrete Weight: Concrete weight of all generated steps. (Read-only)