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minfante

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I'm placing formed concrete stoops at exterior man door locations.  They are 3- sided walls with slab-on-deck top to prevent heaving.  When I get to placing the slab on deck element, there is no slab-direction symbol that I can use to easily make the corrugations run the correct way.  Is this something that is determined by my order of perimeter lines drawn?

I usually have good luck when I place a direction symbol and rotate the deck with that.  I tried to place a slab direction symbol on the stoop slab, but it isn't visible.  Is it too small of an area?

 Thanks in advance.

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emgeeo

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Are you drawing multiple stoop slabs within one element?  This will cause the span arrow to appear in the middle of the two seperate slabs.  Example; you have two identical stoops at grids 1 & 3.  The span arrow will appear in the middle of these two stoops - probably at grid 2.

Otherwise, the category is under 'Annotation' - 'Span Direction Symbol'.  Make sense?

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minfante

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I created each stoop assembly as separate functions.  ( I would draw the deck, adjust the cantilever, finish the sketch)

However, I didn't understand what you meant by the last line; which category?  Help Guide?

What determines the direction of deck ribs, initially?  Before the annotation symbol appears, or is placed.

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minfante

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Oh!!!

I got it.  In Visual Graphics, the annotation symbol category was unchecked for span direction symbols.  I see them now.

Thank you.

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