Catalogs

You must use the following conventions for structural catalogues so that the Design applications can recognize them and so that the PARAGON applications can use them:

• The purpose of the catalog must be set to one of the following: STL, FITT, JOIN or PFIT. This ensures that any specifications and applications which are built can recognize the correct catalogue element. Thus the steel Profile specification looks for the purpose STL, the Joint specification looks for the purpose JOIN, the Fitting specification looks for the purpose FITT and the Panel Fitting specification looks for the purpose PFIT. A meaningful description is also beneficial.

• The purpose of the ST section must be set to REF for Reference Data, PRFL for Profiles, FITT for Fittings, JOIN for Joints and PFIT for Panel Fittings.

• The purpose of the ST category must be set to REF for Reference Data, PRFL for Profiles, FITT for Fittings, JOIN for Joints and PFIT for Panel Fittings.

• The GTYPE of the Profile, Fitting, Joint or Panel Fitting must be set. This ensures that specific restrictions can be applied to Joints and Fittings when building the specifications. For example: any Section with a GTYPE set to BEAM can be used with a Joint which has its GTYPE set to BEAM; any Fitting with a GTYPE set to FITT can be used with any Fitting specification.

• The purpose of a CSTANdard is to let you define in a text string the type of standard that is being used. It is used purely for information and administration of the Catalog. For example, the CSTANdard for British Sections is BS 5950.

The diagrams in the following subsection illustrate the structure of the catalogues.