SAP2000 SAP2000 Web Tutorial 1

Step 2: Relabeling Joint, Frame and Shell Elements
1. Click in the window labeled 3-D View to make sure it is active. Note when the window is
active, its title bar will be highlighted.
2. Click the Set Elements button on the main toolbar (or select Set Elements… from the
View menu). This displays the Set Elements Dialog box.
3. In this dialog box:
• In the Joints area check the Labels box.
• In the Frames area check the Labels box.
• In the Shells area check the Labels box.
• Click the OK button.
Note: We are turning on the element labels so that we can see the effect of the element
relabeling. It is not necessary to turn on element labels in order to relabel them.
4. From the Select menu choose Select, and then All from the submenu. All elements in the
model (joints, frame elements and shell elements) are selected.
5. From the Edit menu choose Change Labels to display the Relabel Selected Items dialog
box.
6. In this dialog box:
• Press the F1 key to display the contextsensitive
online help for this dialog
box.
• When finished reading the online help,
click the “X” in the top right-hand
corner of the Help window, or select
Exit from the File menu on the Help
window to close it.
• In the Change Label Initialization area
of the dialog box type 1 in the Next
Number edit boxes for Joint, Frame and
Shell elements.
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