Advance Design Ribbon - Home Tab
The Home tab of the Advance Design Ribbon is your central toolkit for modeling. Designed for practicality, it consolidates all the essential commands you need for creating and adjusting models. From defining geometries to applying loads, and executing basic CAD operations, this tab is organized to help you work smarter and faster, keeping essential tools easily accessible and simplifying your modeling process.
In the following section, you'll see a comprehensive breakdown of each panel and its specific commands. This will help you understand how to effectively use these tools to enhance your modeling workflow in Advance Design.
Home tab - Advance Design Ribbon
Detailed Description of the Home Tab
The Home tab is thoughtfully divided into logical panels, each dedicated to a specific aspect of the modeling process:
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Project Settings Panel
Project Settings panel
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Opens the Options - Application dialog box to define various application settings such as the default working directory, save options, memory allocation, results configuration, the connections export options, the Project Browser content and display, and more. |
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Opens the Display Settings dialog box to configure display styles. |
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Opens the Settings - Structure dialog box to define the general configuration of the structure. |
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Opens the Project Settings dialog box, allowing the definition of certain parameters which describe the Advance Design project and which are used in the report that is generated for the current project. |
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Opens the Localization configuration dialog box (when the model is open, the dialog is displayed only in view mode). This dialog box allows users to configure localization settings and specify the interface language, as well as the standards for reinforced concrete, steelwork, timber, and masonry that will be applied to the project. |
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Lines Panel
Lines panel
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Creates a point. |
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Creates a grid. |
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Creates a dimension line. |
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Creates a line. |
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Creates an arc by 3 points. |
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Creates a circle by its center and radius. |
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Linear & Plate Panel
Linear & Planar panel
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Creates a simple / chained / vertical / horizontal linear element. |
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Creates a simple / vertical / horizontal planar element. |
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Supports Panel
Supports panel
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Creates a rigid / elastic / T/C point support/ Advanced Point support. |
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Creates a rigid / elastic / T/C linear support/ Advanced linear support. |
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Creates a rigid / elastic / T/C planar support/ Advanced planar support. |
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Creates a single pile. |
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Load Area Panel
Load Area panel
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Creates a load area element / load area on selection. |
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Floor Deck Panel
Floor Deck Panel
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Load Case & Loads Panel
Load Case & Loads panel
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Displays a drop-down list of all the model's load cases. |
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Opens the Combinations dialog box to configure load case combinations for finite elements, reinforced concrete, steel, and timber calculations.
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Creates a point load. |
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Creates a linear load. |
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Creates a planar load. |
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CAD Functions Panel
CAD Functions panel
The CAD Functions contains the following commands:
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Copy allows access to the Copy dialog box to define copy settings and parameters. |
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Move is used to define the parameters when moving objects. |
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Subdivide: Subdivides linear or planar elements using reference objects (i.e., other linear elements, lines, etc.). |
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Cut: Cuts parts of structure elements (i.e., linear, planar) using reference objects (i.e., lines, points, linear or planar elements). |
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Trim or extend: Trims or extends linear and planar elements relative to a selected reference object. |
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Create a fillet: Creates fillets: between two linear elements sharing an extremity or on a planar element's extremities |
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Symmetries: Mirrors a selected element or group of elements according to a specified symmetry plane or axis. |
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Extrusion of an element: Creates linear and planar elements starting from points and lines. |
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Plane symmetry (mirror): Allows you to copy an element by defining a reference plane. |
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Axial symmetry: Allows you to copy an element by defining a reference axis. |
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Rotation (Input angle): Provides various options to define the rotation of an element or a group of elements according to the specified settings. |
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Selection Panel
Selection panel
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Select by criteria: Opens the Elements Selection dialog box, allowing an advanced selection of elements by combining the selection criteria and applying them on the whole model or on a previous selection set only. |
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Invert selection: Inverts the selection status of elements. By using this command, the unselected elements become selected and vice-versa. |
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Previous selection: This command allows you to quickly revert to your last selection. When activated, it replaces your current selection (or state without selection) with the one you had previously selected. |
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Selection mode: Clicking on this option brings up a drop-down menu offering various selection criteria. You can filter your selection based on specific attributes like material type, cross-section dimensions, thickness, and more. |
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Selection template: Opens a Selection of objects and Criteria template drop-down menu. |
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Isolate/Display Panel
Isolate / Display panel
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Filter: Displays only the selected elements. |
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Displays all elements, including hidden ones. |
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Hides selected elements. |
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Ghost display on an elements selection: Displays the elements as axes and sections with shaded faces. |
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Views Panel
Views panel
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Rotation around the model. |
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Zoom in/out (Ctrl + / Ctrl -). |
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Zoom window (Alt + W). |
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Zoom all (Alt + A). |
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Translation (panning) (Alt + P). |
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Front View of the workplane (Alt + 1). |
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Right View of the workplane (Alt + 2). |
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Top View of the workplane (Alt + 3). |
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3D View (-1, -1, -1) (Alt + 4). 3D View (1, -1, 1) (Alt + 5). 3D View (-1, -1, 1) (Alt + 6). 3D View (-1, 1, 1) (Alt + 7). |
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No Split (dividing of the graphic area): 1 view. |
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Vertical Split: 2 views. |
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Horizontal Split: 2 views. |
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Split: 1 + 2 views. |
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Split: 2 + 1 views. |
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Split: 4 views. |
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Define a view facing the current workplane. |
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Cut planes management. |
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Save the view. |
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Update the view. |
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Plan Panel
Plan panel
The Plan panel contains the following commands:
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Display or hide the workplane (F7). |
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Define the workplane by projection on the active view. |
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Define the workplane: point + normal. |
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Define the workplane by 3 points. |
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Define workplane by element selection. |
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Cartesian/polar workplane. |
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Center the workplane on the model. |
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Move the workplane by altitude. |
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Render Modes Panel
Render modes panel
The Render Modes panel contains the following commands:
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Displays axes. |
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Display axes with sections. |
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Displays profiles. |
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Displays linear contour. |
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Displays covered (shaded) faces. |
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Displays linear contour with shaded faces. |
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Ghost display. |
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Snap Panel
Snap panel
This panel allows you to enable/disable and access the desired snap modes.
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Enable / disable the snap modes. |
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Snap to endpoint. |
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Snap to the mid point of a segment. |
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Snap to the intersection of two objects. |
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Snap to center. |
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Snap to the nearest entity. |
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Snap perpendicularly to an object. |
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Snap parallelly to an object. |
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Snap to the intersection point of the virtually extended elements. |
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Snap tracking each point between the extremities. |
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Snap to ortho directions. |
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Set a relative snap (no limitations for the snap position). |
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Length on element: Snap to an element at a specified distance from a certain point of the element. |
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Verify Command
The Verify panel, located on the Home Ribbon tab in Advance Design, provides commands for performing model verification and checking the consistency and accuracy of the descriptive model.
Verify command
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Slider Panel
Slider panel on the Results Ribbon
The Text Size slider: Allows users to conveniently adjust the size of descriptions in the software. It provides a quick and intuitive way to control the visibility and readability of textual information.
Slider panel options for text size