Scia Engineer Tips & Tricks Movies

Here you will find some tips & tricks movies explaining some of the new functionalities within Scia Engineer. Enjoy your learning session...

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Table Input

	Table columns	How to manage a property column in the Table input tool.
	Copy row	How to copy a row with a member .
	Mathematic formula	How to use a simple mathematic formulas in the Table input.
	New member	Inserting of a new member by the Table input.
	Predefined properties	How to predefine properties for a new member.
	Table and MS Excel	How to use the clipboard managment between Table input and MS Excel
	Table highlights (from 2011.1)	Highlighting tool in the table input and it's displaying in the 3D window
	Filtering (2013)	The Table input filter can be used for searching a specific member.


Automated General Arrangement Drawings

	How to start	How to start the GA drawings functionality.
	Libraries default settings	Location of GA drawings libraries and their default settings.
	Creating new drawing rules	How to define totally new drawing rules for a specific structure. The final drawing is modified in the next tutorial.
	Adapting drawing rules	How to adapt already existing drawing rules - more colours, more line styles...
	Hatching	How to define hatching in the drawing view.
	Drawing rules for openings	How to generate openings on edges and inner openings in 2D members.
	Drawing Manager - Autorefresh	Automatic refresh of newly created “plane section entities” in the Drawing manager.

Easy Modelling

	Tracking ray	Easy way to create a whole model using tracking rays.
	Tracking line	Using tracking rays in copy command and using tracking lines.
	Fast copy of members	Copying of members using CTRL without Copy command.
	Move only in working plane	How to insert members only into the working plane even in 3D model.
	Commands and shortcuts (2013)	How to define and work with shortcuts in Scia Engineer?

Export & Import Tricks

	Export to IFC	How to export the file from Scia Engineer (version 2010.1) to the IFC file. Exported file is used in the next tutorial.
	Import from IFC	How to import and adapt structure from the IFC file using align tool. (Scia Engineer version 2010.1)
	Import / Export DWG 2011	How to import and export DWG files created in AutoCAD 2011.

Protection

	Loading .LID	How to load .LID file to the Scia Activation Manager.
	Borrowing modules	How to borrow modules from movies/protection server and how to return them back.

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