Getting Started

This section will guide you through a session of preparing and printing a calculation. We will use the General Timber Beam calculation because it contains all the features available in the Structural Engineering Library.

This sample session will cover these topics. If you are viewing this in the HTML help system, just click on an item to jump right to the section.

•	Starting the program

•	The Start Up Wizard

•	Creating a Project File

•	Entering Project Information

•	Setting your Title Block

•	Add a General Timber Beam calculation

•	Take a look at the Calculation screen

•	Entering some data

•	Getting beam sections from a database

•	Displaying a Sketch

•	Displaying a Stress Diagram

•	Automatic member design selection

•	Printing the calculation

•	Saving the Calculation

•	Changing Section Names, Adding a Section

•	Adding another Calculation

•	Creating a Technical Support Question

•	Closing the Project File