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      • Structure Properties
      • Create and manage construction levels
      • Create frames and slopes
      • Create and manage grid lines and architectural grids
      • Create and manage construction lines
      • Create members
        • Create columns
          • Specify the column type and section size
          • Create a single column or series of columns
          • Create inclined columns and cranked columns
          • Create gable posts or parapet posts
          • Column releases
          • Align a column to a specific angle or an angled grid line
          • Modify the position of columns and column stacks
          • Setting out steel and cold formed columns
          • Create plated or compound section steel columns
          • Specify a column splice
          • Add a base plate to a steel column
          • Specify concrete column alignment relative to the grid
          • Modify concrete column alignment or specify offsets
          • Column properties
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Create columns

Tekla Structural Designer
Modified: 21 Mar 2025
2025
Tekla Structural Designer

Create columns

This section focuses on the operations required to create columns (in any material).

  • Specify the column type and section size
  • Create a single column or series of columns
  • Create inclined columns and cranked columns
  • Create gable posts or parapet posts
  • Column releases
  • Align a column to a specific angle or an angled grid line
  • Modify the position of columns and column stacks
  • Column properties

The following topics are relevant to steel columns only:

  • Setting out steel and cold formed columns
  • Create plated or compound section steel columns
  • Specify a column splice
  • Add a base plate to a steel column
  • Create web openings in steel members
  • Manage design section orders

Concrete columns specifically have an automatic alignment facility:

  • Specify concrete column alignment relative to the grid
  • Modify concrete column alignment or specify offsets
See also
Video: Creating and editing columns (US customary units)
Video: Creating and editing columns (metric units)
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