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Units, title block, sizes and output
Units, your title block and its project overrides, sheet sizes, report presets, PDFs and DXF drawings.
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Units, your title block, sheet sizes, and output.
Units
Each calculation has its own design method and units. Switch between US and metric at the top of the inputs. Every value is converted, and nothing is lost going back and forth. In metric, the same beam reads as a W530X74, in millimeters and kilonewtons, and back again.
Two layers of settings
Settings come in two layers: your own defaults, and the changes for one project. Your defaults belong to you, not to the whole firm. Select the gear in the header to open Settings. It opens on My defaults.
Title block
On the Title block tab, enter your firm, your address, your license, and the short name printed in the logo box. Add the engineer of record, and the general notes you put on every sheet. Select Save my defaults when you are done.
Sheet size
Under Sheets, pick your default sheet size: 11 by 17, or letter, landscape or portrait. Set the sheet number prefix, and the status line.
Project settings
When one project needs something different, pick the project in the scope bar, and change only that field. It is marked Project. Everything else is marked Inherited, and keeps following your defaults. The arrow puts a field back. Select Save for this project.
Report settings
The Report tab shapes the calculation report. Start from a preset, then fine-tune the groups, such as the header and footer, the detail level, the drawings, the units and the section order. Preview report shows a real PDF with your changes, before you save.
PDFs
To print a calculation, use the output bar under the drawings. Calc report makes the PDF. Its menu also has a summary report, a full report, and Customize this report, which changes one PDF without touching your settings.
Sheets and DXF
Drawing sheet makes the sheet at your default size, and its menu picks another. Here is the same beam on 11 by 17, and on letter. Drawing DXF gives you the sheet for your CAD software, with its title block and its layers.
The whole project
For the whole job, open the project menu. Calc package makes one PDF with every calculation. All sheets gives you the full sheet set.
Set it up once, and every sheet and report comes out the way you want. Questions? Select Support in the app, or write to us at services@ilxstudio.com.