Design Settings > General

Tekla Structural Designer
Modified: 12 Mar 2024
2025
Tekla Structural Designer

Design Settings > General

Setting Description

Fix column nodes horizontally

Allows you to automatically apply lateral translational fixed supports to column nodes for the 3D building analysis performed during the gravity design processes.

The option is useful at the early design stage when lateral systems have not been established. The automatic lateral supports can remove unwanted lateral displacements that may prevent the analysis from completing and produce unrealistic forces.

Note:
The option does not apply to:
  • The column nodes that are in a rigid floor diaphragm
  • An analysis run as a separate process
  • The Analyze All (Static) command
  • The 3D building analysis performed during any Design (Static) command
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