Diamonds

• Working Environment
  • Overview of shortcuts in Diamonds
  • Configuration settings
  • Design types
  • Grid settings
  • Selecting elements
  • Drawing plane
  • Managing levels
  • Ground level
  • Defining groups
    • Groups for calculating buckling lengths
    • Groups for geometry operations
    • Groups for defining loads
    • Groups for defining cross-sections
• Geometry buttons
  • Selecting pointer
  • Label and comment
  • Drawing
    • Drawing points
    • Drawing lines
    • Drawing surfaces (slabs, plates or walls)
    • Drawing structure elements
    • Drawing footings
    • Drawing parametric forms
    • Drawing parametric structures
  • Deleting points, lines and surfaces
  • Operations
    • Divide
    • Extrude
    • Move and copy
    • Rotate
    • Projection
    • Mirror
    • Intersect
    • Model verification
    • Scale
    • Rotate cross-section
  • Properties
    • Point properties
    • Line properties
    • Cross-section properties
    • Surface properties
    • Footing properties
  • Choose material
  • Choose cross-section
  • Supports
    • Supports on points and lines
    • Supports on surfaces
  • Rigid links
  • Eccentricities
  • Boundary conditions for bars
  • Boundary conditions for surfaces
  • Fire protection
  • Table ‘Data’
  • Buckling and lateral buckling parameters
    • Settings for buckling
    • Settings for lateral torsional buckling
• Load buttons
  • Load groups
  • Load combinations
  • Load combinations in time
  • Loads on points
    • Point load
    • Moment
  • Loads on lines
    • Point load
    • Distributed load
    • Moment
    • Distributed torsion
    • Redistribution of surface loads
  • Loads on surface – distributed load
  • Temperature loads
    • Temperature loads on bars
    • Temperature loads on surfaces
  • Wind load generator
    • Terrain parameters
    • Generator on frames/ canopy roofs
    • Generator on surfaces
    • Generator on bar groups
  • Snow load generator
    • Terrainparameters
    • Generator on frames
    • Generator on surfaces
    • Generator on bar groups
  • Seismic loads
  • Lineair dynamic loads
    • Main load group (dynamic load)
    • Sub load group (dynamic load)
  • Crane loads
    • Moving loads library
    • Allocate crane load to model
    • Summary of applied crane loads
    • Animation
  • Fire loads
  • Operations
    • Deleting and editing loads
    • Move or copy-paste loads with dialogue
    • Copy-paste loads with right mouse button
    • Scale loads
• Results buttons
  • Displaying deformations
  • Displaying internal forces in bars
  • Displaying internal forces in surfaces
  • Displaying reactions
  • Displaying elastic stresses in bars
  • Displaying elastic stresses in surfaces
  • Displaying reinforcement amounts
  • Displaying unity check results
  • Displaying cracking width
  • Displaying thermal results
  • Displaying results along a cut line
  • Modal reaction
  • Tables
    • Table ‘Results’
    • Table ‘Equilibrium check’
    • Table ‘Modal information’
  • Detailed results
  • Detailed results in a cross-section
• Calculations
  • Mesh
  • Elastic analysis
  • Fire safety analysis
  • Modal analysis
  • Buckling length calculation
  • Soil calculations
• Concrete design
  • Choosing a concrete standard
  • Reinforcement calculation
    • Reinforcement calculation in bars
    • Reinforcement calculation in surfaces
    • Punching shear calculation in (foundation) slabs
    • Punching shear calculation in footings
  • Practical reinforcement
    • Practical reinforcement using basic tool
    • Practical reinforcement using advanced tool
  • Calculation cracked deflection
    • Cracked deflection at time infinity
    • Cracked deflection over time
  • Calculation of cracking width
• Steel and timber design
  • Choosing a steel or timber standard
  • Check strength and stability (unity check)
  • Results for strength and stability
  • Optimization strength and stability
  • Optimization fire-resistant coating
  • Deformations in stainless steel
• Connection design
  • Calculation of a connection using PowerConnect
    • Selecting combinations
    • Calculating a connection
    • Saving a connection in the library
    • Assigning connection characteristics to a node
  • Parametric connections
  • Connection library
  • Connection verification in Diamonds
• Reporting
  • Project reference
  • Creating a new report
    • ‘General’ tab
    • ‘Geometry’ tab
    • ‘Loads’ tab
    • ‘Global results’ tab
    • ‘Detailed results’ tab
  • Moving, modifying, copying and deleting a report
  • Printing a report
    • Defining a printer
    • Page setup
    • Printing a report
    • Print review
    • Saving a report in an RTF-file
• Libraries
  • Material library
  • Section library
  • Rebar mat library
  • Operations in and with the libraries
    • Adding a new material
    • Adding a new cross-section
    • Adjust filter settings
    • Exporting a library
    • Importing a library
    • Factory reset
• User-defined parameters
  • Preference parameters
    • Saving project parameters
    • Setting geometric tolerances of a model
    • Drawing parameters
  • Units and decimals
• Import and export
  • Import from DXF
  • Import from BIM Expert
  • Import from PowerPlate/ PowerFrame
  • Import from Diamonds
  • Export to DXF
  • Export to BIM Expert
  • Export to bitmap
  • Export to ConCrete Plus
  • Export to Strakon