Your final task is to document the results in a calculation note. Activate this feature from the menu ‘File > Print report … ‘.
And get access to the following dialogue.
This dialogue contains a number of tabs which you can specify
- what information you want to include in the calculation note
- how this information is formatted
The tab page Page Setup shows the general information regarding the Header and Footer of the calculation note.
The actual content of the calculation note is defined via the tabs General, Loads and Graphs. In the General page, you have access to a representation of the geometry, but you can also request following information:
- the table of ‘loads descent’ that you have performed
- the description of how the load groups (dead load, life loads, …) were combined to perform the calculations
What concerns the design of the structure, you can ask the optimal dimension of the sections to be included in the report, together with an estimate of the amounts of materials:
- for steel this includes an estimation of the weight and the paint surface
- for reinforced concrete, this includes an estimation of the volume of concrete and the weight of the reinforcement
In addition you can also include the material parameters used for design in your calculation note.
Through the tab pages Loads and Graphs you have access to all graphs that were visible via the icon fields Loads and Plot.
After defining the details for the calculation note, you can send it to the printer by clicking on 
. In addition, you can adjust the printer settings, if necessary. However, it is always a good idea to take a preview in advance via ‘Print preview‘ 
. This allows you modify the content calculation note, if it didn’t meet your expectations.
