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From the Supported Profiles Settings window, clicking the Add button will create a new blank row at the bottom of the grid.
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The name for the profile map and the profile type can be set. For this example the name will be “L Beam” and the type will be L Beam. Clicking the Edit button will bring up the profile map Properties window. The Profile Name field will be blank, but the Profile Type will be set to Precast and the Category set to L Beam as selected in the previous window. The necessary rows for the grid will already be added with the fields under Property filled in for the L Beam. The other two columns will be blank.
The Profile Name was found from the beam’s profile string as “LBEAM” so it should be added to the Profile Name box. The indices for the properties are entered in the Index/Value column. The index for each value is its place in the profile string. This can be determined from the grid at the lower right of the Profile properties window from Tekla Structures.
The profile string for the L Beam has the form “LBEAM a*b*c*d*f” where each letter represents a property in the beam’s cross section. Each letter’s position in the string is the index value to be entered in the the Index/Value column.
