Tutorial 7 of 7 · Beginner · about 15 minutes

Reports and hand-off

The last step of every model: a calculation report you can hand to a reviewer, the results tables for your own spreadsheets, and the member forces passed on to the connection and detail design.

1. Set your title block once #

1. Open your account menu, then Settings, and fill in the title block: your firm's name, address, phone, license number and logo, and the engineer's name.
2. These are your defaults: every new project starts from them.
3. A project that needs something different (a different engineer, a joint-venture logo) overrides them in the project's own settings, without touching your defaults.

2. Fill in the project information #

Open the project's settings and enter the project name, number, client, location and the issue status. They appear on every page of the report.

3. Generate the report #

1. Run the analysis and the design you want reported.
2. On the Report tab, click Preview to see the report in the app, or Generate report (PDF).
3. Pick the sections to include: the model (geometry, sections, materials, supports), the loads and combinations, the analysis results (reactions, member forces and their diagrams, deflections, drifts) and the design of every member, with its governing ratio, combination and clause.
4. The PDF is built on the server as a background job and saved with the project; download it when it is ready.

See a real one first: download the free sample report.

4. Download the results tables #

Results CSV / XLSX on the Report tab downloads every number of the analysis and the design as a table: reactions, member end forces, displacements and design ratios, per case and combination, ready for a spreadsheet.

5. Export the model #

Export / download on the Home tab saves the model as an ILX Structures file (.ilxs), or exports it as DXF for your drawings or IFC for BIM coordination.

6. Send member forces to ILX Connection #

1. Select a beam or a brace.
2. On the Bridge tab, pick the connection type (shear or moment) and click Send to Connections.
3. ILX Connection opens with the member's section and its end forces for every combination, ready to design the connection.

7. Send member forces to ILX Calcs #

Send to Calcs (concrete) on the Bridge tab sends a member's forces to ILX Calcs for a detailed member or element calculation, with its own report.

Your responsibility #

The report documents what ILX Structures computed. You, or the engineer of record you work for, review the model, the results and the report before issuing it. See the Disclaimer.

Screens in the app may differ slightly from the words here as the app gains features; the steps stay the same. Questions: services@ilxstudio.com.