LEARN COMPOSITE STEP BY STEP
STEP NO. 1 : New Project (File) Creation
ACTUAL REQUIRED FLOOR PLAN
Refer the above Floor Drawing. Our Intention is to perform Analysis, Design, Estimation & Costing of the above Floor. The above floor has 70 # of Joints, 32 # of Columns, 79 # of Beams and 34 # of Slabs (Chequered Plate / Grating).
Please go through the following steps carefully, so that we can achieve our object efficiently.
When Program starts, the graphics above is displayed. Consider the " New Project Option ".

Click the " New Project " option in the MENU bar. The following window will open.
 
You must create a separate Folder / Directory to store your files. 
I have created a Directory called " 000COMPOSITE "  in D: drive to store my Project files. 
Now go to this folder & give a file name to your project. I have given " Example_1 " as the name of my new project file. Click the save button. Following project window will open.

The window requires various project details. Whatever values you will fill here will serve as default values for the project.
I have filled up the above values as required by my new project " Example_1 ".
Please note that you cannot Change / Edit  all these values later. Hence be-careful in feeding these initial values. Few values will be allowed to change. The total floor width & length values will be used to tally the sum of individual Vertical and Horizontal Grids.
Here the meaning of Grids means Center Lines Between Column-Beams and also Center Lines of Beams without Columns. Even any isolated Beam is treated as a Grid.
The automatic creation of Joint Numbers & Co-Ordinate system depends up on total width, length & No. of vertical & horizontal Grids of floor.
 
Click on Read Me Button, following important points are displayed.

1. Designer to Select Deck Profile as per Allowable, Total Un-factored Loading Intensity
    corresponding to Maximum span of Deck, from the Load Table provided by Deck Manufacturer. 
 
2. The Deck deflection shall not exceed Span / 180 or 20 MM whichever is less.

3. The Composite floor design is based on the assumption that all beams are simply supported.
     There is no Hogging bending moment due to DL + LL or Wind or EQ.

4. The Complete System shall be Braced with Shear Wall or with Crossed Braced Frames, 
     resisting all lateral Forces.

5. It is Preferred to Design all Braced Frames as Non-Sway Frames, refer IS 800 : 2007.

6. Select the Deck Span requiring no Props.

7. Restrict thickness of Galvanized Deck profile to 1.25 MM.

8. Diameter of automatically welded Studs are restricted to 19 MM.

9. Thickness of Deck Profile > 85 & < 35 MM not Permitted.

10. Decking Sheets shall be attached to each other & to all permanent supports using screws or
       shot fired nails.

11. Thickness of Concrete above Rib < 55 MM not Permitted.

12. Deck Width (br) < 50 MM not Permitted.

13. Min. Clear Cover to Stud from Concrete Top = 20 MM.

14. Deck Sheeting over lap = 150 ~ 300 MM as per Manufacturers details.

15. Min. Bearing of Deck Profile on Steel = 50 MM.

16. Aggregate Size not > than 0.4 * Conc. thickness above Rib.

17. Attach minimum of one Stud to every decking trough.

18. However 2 Studs can be attached if required by design.

19. Stud Transverse Spacing not > 4 diameter.

20. Stud Longitudinal Spacing > 5 diameter.

Now click the " Next Page" button, following window will appear.
I have entered the Horizontal Grid distance as 25000 mm for each Bay. The total is 30000 mm, which tally's with the total floor width of 30000 mm which was entered in the earlier page. If there is a mis-match between the two then an error will be displayed. A user can click " Previous Page " button to display the previous page & verify the required total width. Note that distance between vertical Grids means horizontal distance. Start from leftmost grid by referring to the Floor Plan.

If all grid distances are same then a user can enter the grid distance once & use " Copy All " button to copy the values to all ROWS.

Use Copy & Paste Button to copy & paste values to different rows, in case the grid distances are not same.

The " Prev ", " Next ", " Last ", " 1 st ", & " Go to Rec  " Buttons are for displaying / Focusing the cursor on Previous, Next, First or required Record Number.

The " Clear " Button clears all grid Distance values.

The " Print " Button is for printing of values from the Table. Use laser OR Inkjet Printer.

Now click the " Next Page " button, following window will appear.
I have entered the Horizontal Grid distance as 5000 mm for each Bay. The total is 25000 mm, which tally's with the total floor width of 25000 mm which was entered in the earlier page. If there is a mis-match between the two then an error will be displayed. A user can click " Previous Page " button to display the previous page & verify the required total width. Note that distance between Horizontal Grids means Vertical distance from Top Down. Start from Top Left grid by referring to the Floor Plan.

If all grid distances are same then a user can enter the grid distance once & use " Copy All " button to copy the values to all ROWS.

Use Copy & Paste Button to copy & paste values to different rows, in case the grid distances are not same.

The " Prev ", " Next ", " Last ", " 1 st ", & " Go to Rec  " Buttons are for displaying / Focusing the cursor on Previous, Next, First or required Record Number.

The " Clear " Button clears all grid Distance values.

The " Print " Button is for printing of values from the Table. Use laser OR Inkjet Printer.

Now click the " Finish " button, following window will appear.
Note the above very important message.
If any joint no. is deleted then Joint numbers will be re-numbered. Delete the corresponding
Un-Wanted Columns, Beams & Slabs, which belonged to above mentioned deleted Joints.
Now the Columns, Beams & Slabs will be automatically re-numbered as Un-wanted members are deleted. Now user should manually change the Joint Numbers of Columns. Similarly RHS & LHS joint numbers of Beams should be changed manually as per the revised (Re-Numbered) joint numbers.
If a User would like to Part Edit / View the Project File, just click " Edit / Display Project File " Option.  Following window will display the project file.

Note from above display that AREAS which are Grayed cannot be edited, rest of them can be changed.

STEP NO. 1 IS OVER.