Online course “SCAD office”

1. Introduction

• Program interface, Basic settings.
• Ribbon and toolbars.

2. Opening and saving files

• How to create a new project. Units of measurement, diagram types.
• Creation of a calculation scheme (metal structures).

3. Axes and levels

• Operations with nodes and elements. The concept of general and local coordinate systems.
• Rigidity characteristics of rod elements.

4. Types of finite element rods. Their common and distinctive features

• Assigning conditions for adjoining elements and connections at nodes. Introducing hinges.

5. Specifying individual static load cases and load case combinations

• Input of static loads: self-weight of the structure, nodal and distributed loads.
• Collection of loads.

6. Types and kinds of loads. Reliability factors

• The order of operations when specifying load combinations.
• The order of operations when determining the calculated combinations of forces.

7. Control of calculation scheme parameters. Preparation for calculation

• Working with information display filters (settings, control of geometry, rigidity characteristics, etc.).

8. Presentation graphics – volumetric display of the calculation scheme

• Matching nodes and elements. Packaging and express control of source data.

9. Calculation activation. Review of information contained in the calculation protocol. Monitoring during the calculation process. Error detection and correction.

• General principles of managing the display of results.
• Deformation analysis. Analysis of forces and stresses in rod elements.

10. Checking the load-bearing capacity of steel structure elements

• Setting parameters and assigning structural elements.
• Calculation and results analysis. Selection of sections.

11. Documentation of calculation results

• Setting up the documenter, working with tables.

12. Print settings, outputting results in graphical form, working with illustrations

13. Creation of a calculation scheme (reinforced concrete structures)

• Using other types of rigidity and adjusting them.

14. Absolutely rigid bodies and special elements

15. Preparation for calculation of a previously created structure

• Setting the initial data for calculating the coefficients of elastic foundation under the slab in the KROSS program.

16. Application of the material covered in a new calculation scheme

17. Calculation activation. Principles of control over the display of results for circuits with plate elements

• Analysis of forces and stresses in plate elements. Plotting diagrams along a secant.

18. Selection of reinforcement in reinforced concrete structure elements. Preparing data for work

• Performing calculations and analyzing results.

19. Expertise of the specified reinforcement

• Assigning reinforcement in reinforced concrete elements.

20. Documentation of calculation results

21. Using Build Mode

• Combining several calculation schemes.

22. Determination of loads and impacts on building structures in the VeST program

23. Wind loads, setting up RSU and RSN

24. Application of the material covered in a new calculation scheme

25. Project-analytical program CRYSTAL

26. Project-analytical program ARBAT

27. Project-analytical program REQUEST

28. Design and analytical programs KAMIN, DECOR

29. Auxiliary programs for calculating the geometric characteristics of cross-sections of rod elements

30. Design and engineering programs MONOLITH and COMET

31. Export to DXF and other formats

32. Questions and answers on the materials covered