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Multiselect and multiedit in the Connection app

Steel

v24.1

Modeling

Connection

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The functionality of Multiselect and Multiedit in IDEA StatiCa Connection enables users to perform bulk actions for more selected items at once. Thus, creating a new connection model or modifying an imported one is fast.

Thanks to the property grid, items and objects such as Members, Load effects, Operations, Temperature, and Dissipative items can be selected in logical groups. With one click, all user actions, such as changing the offset in members, changing material in operations, copying and deleting loads, etc., can be done for the whole group.

Multiselect is implemented only for items in the tree list – it can't be used to select objects in the visual model in the 3D scene. It can be performed in two ways:

Hold CTRL and select items in the tree list one by one
Or select the first item, hold SHIFT, and select the last item of the desired selection in the tree list

It is possible to select multiple items of the same type or different types.

Selection of the same type of items (homogenous selection)

When the same items are selected, copy and delete (1) actions in the property grid header are available. Items are copied in the same order as they were selected.

The property tab is editable respecting these rules:

Properties with an identical value show the inputted value (2)
Properties with different values are empty in a drop-down menu (3) or show the <Multiple value> in a text field (4)
A checkbox with different values shows an orange dot (5)
Properties illogical or impossible for bulk editing are greyed out/disabled (6)

When multiple load effects are selected, only copy and delete actions are available.

Selection of different types of items (non-homogenous selection)

When different items within the same group are multi-selected, the property tab is empty, and only copy and delete actions are available.

When items in different groups (e.g. Members + Operations) are multi-selected, the property tab is empty, and copy and delete actions are not available.