Mat foundations support multiple columns and walls. Mats can be ground bearing, supported on piles, or both. Tekla Structural Designer contains he following commands for creating mat foundations:

• Minimum Area: creates an overhanging polygonal mat to minimize the required area

• Rectangular: creates an overhanging rectangular mat either at a specified angle to the global axes or at the smallest rectangular area aligned to the global axes

• Strip: creates a constant width mat along a series of points that do not have to be on the same line

• Area: creates an overhanging polygonal mat when you identify points around its outline

• Bays: creates a mat with no overhang when you click within a closed grid area

• Pile: creates individual piles underneath existing mats

• Pile Array: creates an array of piles underneath existing mats

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