Simple steps for using STRUDS PREPROCESSER Building - New - OK or Give information about project - OK Floor plan - Skeleton

- no. of floor including ground & terrace - OK - Select floor one by one and give floor height and level (footing top as zerolevel), and save each floor data. OK Floor plan - Set Select the floor to be drawn-OK Floor screen- C r e a t e s l a b - r e c t a n g u l a r o r a s yo u l i k e - f i r s t p o i n t o f s l a b a s 3 3 ( x a n d y position) -Second point of slab means, co-ordinate of diagonal opposite point w i t h Reference to first point of slab, i.e. size of slab like 3 4.5 (you can alsouse comma (,) instead of space for example: 4,4 to give slab dimensions)Give information about direction of loading, thickness, live load , floor Load etc.OK -draw further slabs as you like. Save - C:/ any folder/ File name Create - Column -Auto add and then type , Y for yes, N for no L for left etc. Create - Wall - define wall one after other , after giving thickness and wall ht and Name like 9w , 4w , para , etc. Create - Duct for open to sky to be drawn and give size of duct like 4 4 Property - Create - Section for beam sizes , name as 918 for 9x18 beam- S e l e c t s e c t i o n t y p e - R e c t a n g u l a r o r a s yo u l i k e - G i v e w i d t h i n B a n d d e p t h in D SAVErepeat to create more section-closeAdd to custom section if you want to save the section sizes for new projectLoad custom section- to get the section sizes from previous menu. Property - Attach - Section - select the section to be attach from down arrow andUse locate to attach a single beam, Use grid to attach one continuous gridand rest for remaining section not attached so far and all for all sec-close. Property - Attach -Wall Select the wall one by one and attached them as above-closeClick the flag if beam depth to be deducted from floor height (consider section size). Close. Property - DetachWall If we want to remove wall then select locate and click on wall to remove and repeat the same .Select- Detach from selected wall menu if all the walls are to be removed. Display - F4-for display node no, F-5 for beam no, F-6 for Slab, F-7 for redraw Display Entities- click flag of wall to see the display of wall, click section ID to see the display of section on screen. Display - List wall to see the list of wall load.

Floor - close to close the floor. Now you have come in building screen BUILDING SCREEN Floor plan - Copy floor plan , here you copy all the floor plan Floor plan - Set-Floor 1 Property -creat load slab to beam remove the flag so that all the load from slab toBeam will be removed.-close Floor plan -Close . This way you can make all the changes including terrace floor.Floor Close Building screen on display now Column - Set parameters-make changes as per your requirement-by default columnSize at top floor is considard 230 x 300 and increment of 75 mm per floor Downword .close Column -Size report-close Column - Orientation select column-click on column-shape and size-column sizes-Change the size as per your requirment-save- To make the orientationHorizontal-reverse the sizes of column autosizing-save-close-save-close.-orientation - Multiple selection of column you can select as many ascolumn you want for orientation. STEPS FOR EARTH QUAKE LOADS Load cases - plan frame-click double all eqlx+,eqlx- for earth quake and all wlx+ etcfor wind load to considered. Load cases - Space frame repeat the same Set up - Seismic Parameters for Earth quake ,use help if OK. save - close.-Wind parameters for wind load. Save-close. Load - Generate Earth quake load- Frame stiffness method. Load - Earth quake load report to see the Earth quake loads. Plane frame Generate Plane frame - View Close Plane frame - Analysis file All save Space frame Generate

Space frame - View -View space- Isometric floor all Building -save - building- exit-yes ANALYSIS Analysis -Open- Building File -C: /Folder Name / File name Analysis - Floor grid - Add all - OK- OK Analysis - Plane frame - Add all OK OK Analysis - Space frame-OK DESIGN R.c.c. design file open -Column Space frame properties- select bar dia-single dia of 16 (Double click)- OK reinforcement parameter max percentage of steel and bottom most lineflagfor minimum % of steel as per resisting conc. Section.Detailing as per is 13290 , flag on if OK Change size internally for column size to increase automatically if fails. Design- New Bi axial , column design will be completed automatically. Design Save Design-Open if desgn is already there. View design select the column change the size of column if required.-save-redesign View load - select option as per requirement. Report Column schedule floor wise/group wise Close. FOOTINGSpace frame Properties Select bar dia -Select soil parameters-change S.B.C. if required.-OK( by default SBC I S 250 - D e s i g n N e w - R e p o r t s c h e d u l e C l o s e BEAM Setting- Reinforcement Torsion to be considered-OK-OK Detailing properties Flag on for detailing as per IS 13920 and for concrete shear .

Space frame-select the floorDesign new Worst Load combination Select the grid to see resultAnalysis result for analysis result of BMD and S.F .Design result- detailing top/bottom/shear etc. Design result section graphics. Plan lay out design diagram- ast OK Marking auto for merging two part of beam in to one beam. Report -beam schedule Group schedule Tools for setting font size etc. STRUDS TO AUTOCAD (Drafting Module) Drafting-file-open Set level-floor no-level etc. Set structure type Plane grid / Plane frameor Space frame Drafting - Give paper size- say 11 x 8 (relative units, no significance for actual scale) Design drafting Sheet - Select -Slab/Beam / column / Footing Place the section , schedule etc at OK position. And save the sheet. X dimn- OK Y dimn - OK scale 1=1 Close the option File Autocad open ARX ( Give the command ARX ) Menu - Load (type L ) Open Strudwin in C drive and then Open Adraft 14 or adraft 2000 Menu ( Type menu) Select Adraft from Strudwin . Auto print menu appear in autocad menu. Open template file - open -give file name

AUTOCAD TO STRUDS Draw the single line diagram or centerline diagram in AutoCAD or open file. ARX ( Give command arx) Load ( Type L) Transfer drawing on struds layer , place column - write to file-give file name and save Open STRUDS from menu. Create new building set floor Create Import