{"id":17593,"date":"2025-09-16T09:53:56","date_gmt":"2025-09-16T09:53:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/support.buildsoft.eu\/?post_type=ht_kb&#038;p=17593"},"modified":"2025-09-16T09:56:22","modified_gmt":"2025-09-16T09:56:22","slug":"whats-with-the-padlocks-in-some-dialogs","status":"publish","type":"ht_kb","link":"https:\/\/support.buildsoft.eu\/fr\/knowledge-base\/whats-with-the-padlocks-in-some-dialogs\/","title":{"rendered":"What&rsquo;s with the padlocks in some dialogs?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>When using Diamonds, you probably feel the desire to edit a property for multiple elements at the same time. <br>And when those selected elements don&rsquo;t have the same properties on opening a geometry dialog, a padlock <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"16\" height=\"15\" class=\"wp-image-17595\" style=\"width: 16px;\" src=\"https:\/\/support.buildsoft.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/KnopSlotjeToe.png\" alt=\"\"> will be shown before the deviating propertie(s). This allows you to open certians padlocks, change the property and leave other properties as they are. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We illustrate the princimple here with boundary conditions, but also materials, eccentricities, &#8230; can be changed the same way. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul>\n<li>A model contains three bars with different boundary conditions. <br><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"488\" height=\"265\" class=\"wp-image-17616\" style=\"width: 350px;\" src=\"https:\/\/support.buildsoft.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/FiguurGedeeldeEigenschappen.png\" alt=\"\"><br>You want all bars to have the N = 100 kN\/m boundary condition, without changing the other boundary conditions these bars already have.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Select all bars and click on <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"34\" height=\"34\" class=\"wp-image-1056\" style=\"width: 34px;\" src=\"https:\/\/support.buildsoft.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/KnopScharnieren.png\" alt=\"\">.<br>The following dialog appears:<br><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"693\" height=\"552\" class=\"wp-image-17619\" style=\"width: 450px;\" src=\"https:\/\/support.buildsoft.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/VensterGedeeldeEigenschappen1.png\" alt=\"\"><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Open the padlocks <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"18\" height=\"15\" class=\"wp-image-17596\" style=\"width: 18px;\" src=\"https:\/\/support.buildsoft.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/KnopSlotjeOpen.png\" alt=\"\"> before N. Leave the other padlocks closed <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"16\" height=\"15\" class=\"wp-image-17595\" style=\"width: 16px;\" src=\"https:\/\/support.buildsoft.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/KnopSlotjeToe.png\" alt=\"\">. <br>Change the transfer of axial forces to 100kN\/m.<br><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"693\" height=\"552\" class=\"wp-image-17618\" style=\"width: 450px;\" src=\"https:\/\/support.buildsoft.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/VensterGedeeldeEigenschappen2.png\" alt=\"\"><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Hit \u00ab\u00a0OK\u00a0\u00bb. <br>You now changed the boundary conditions for the transfer of axial force for all selected bars, whil not changing the boundary conditions for moment or shear. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When using Diamonds, you probably feel the desire to edit a property for multiple elements at the same time. And when those selected elements don&rsquo;t have the same properties on opening a geometry dialog, a padlock will be shown before the deviating propertie(s). This allows you to open certians padlocks,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"ht-kb-category":[59],"ht-kb-tag":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/support.buildsoft.eu\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb\/17593"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/support.buildsoft.eu\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/support.buildsoft.eu\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/ht_kb"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/support.buildsoft.eu\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/support.buildsoft.eu\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17593"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/support.buildsoft.eu\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb\/17593\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17628,"href":"https:\/\/support.buildsoft.eu\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb\/17593\/revisions\/17628"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/support.buildsoft.eu\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"ht_kb_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/support.buildsoft.eu\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb-category?post=17593"},{"taxonomy":"ht_kb_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/support.buildsoft.eu\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb-tag?post=17593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}