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5.20.5 Assign Profile Specification
Purpose
The ASSIGN command may be used to instruct the program to
assign a suitable steel section to a frame member based on the
profile-spec shown below.
General format:
⎧BEAM ⎫
⎪COLUMN ⎪
profile-spec =
⎨ ⎬
See Section
1.7.5
⎪CHANNEL ⎪
⎩ANGLE (DOUBLE) ⎭
Example
See Section 5.20.6
Notes
Sections are always chosen from the relevant built-in steel table.
To find out the details of the sections that are chosen, the
command PRINT MEMBER PROPERTIES should be provided
after specification of all member properties.