Basic Tutorial of

midas Drawing

User Guide
Basic Tutorial for midas Drawing

• STEP 1. Program Environment · · · · · · · · · · 01

• STEP 2. midas Drawing Working Process · · · · · · · · · · 02
• STEP 3. Registration of Sheet · · · · · · · · · · 03
• STEP 4. Generate Drawing · · · · · · · · · · 04
• STEP 5. Edit Template Function · · · · · · · · · · 05
STEP 6. Etc (Other Functions) · · · · · · · · · · 06
STEP 1. Program Environment
Drawing Menu
Fast Tools Title Bar

View Window

Essential Tutorial

Work Tree (Tree Menu)

Coordinate System

Model Tab

Command line Status Bar

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Consist of work Tree
Window : It is divided into 3 types: TEMPLATE mode,
DRAWING mode, and CAD mode. When double-
clicking, the mode can be changed.
Template mode is a function to set the drawing to be
displayed according to the specified drawing style. You
can also register the template in a new style.
The auto-generated drawing mode is a mode in which
the types of drawings automatically generated are
listed on the drawing mode.
The CAD mode is the same as AutoCAD.
Therefore, not only the existing CAD commands and
functions, but also the information CAD work can be
performed.

Info-Tag : A window that contains information needed

for an object or drawing.
You can use the information contained in the object
created with the information.

Draw Lib : It is a window that can efficiently manage

and edit components such as text style, dimension
style, sheet, and block required for drawing.

Properties : It shows the properties of the selected

object and you can edit it. If no objects are selected,
the current settings of the general properties are
displayed.

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STEP 2. midas Drawing Working Process
midas Drawing Working Process

Step 01 Step 02 Step 03

Turn on the Drawing PG Connect automatically Generate Design Summary Step 04
in the nGen all information In midas Drawing Generate Drawing

• Foundation Drawing
• Plan drawing
• Pile layout plan
Recommend nGen & Drawing Process •
•
Elevation drawing
Rebar arrangement for footing
& Slab
• Rebar arrangement for beam &
column & wall
• Member List
Step 07 Step 06 Step 05 • Quantities table (excel format)
Export as dwg/dxf Edit Drawings Put drawing in the sheet
& Plot drawings

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STEP 3. Registration of Sheet
Create basic sheet
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① Draw Lib Tab in the work tree.

② Window Drawing object > Sheet >

Drag & Drop in view window.
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③ Complete the information to register
the basic sheet.

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Register the sheet

① Mouse right click on the defined

sheet > Click the ‘rename’

② Typing the name as ‘Drawing 2’

③ Drag & Drop to register ‘Drawing 2’

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Use the sheet

① Drag & Drop to Use the ‘Drawing 2’

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STEP 4. Generate Drawing
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Input
Project Information
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In order to automatically allocate
information tags in the Drawing program,
the Project Information must be inputted
in the nGen.

① nGen Structure Tab in the main

menu > Click the ‘Project Information’
② Create an overview of the project in
the dialog box.

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Define
Member Group
(Method 1)
Define design grouping of members. In
order to automatically generate member
list at drawing, there must be grouping
information. You can create a structural
drawing automatically by passing it from
nGen to drawing without performing
analysis and design in nGen.

① Design Tab in the main menu >

Design Group > Click “Assign 2
Design Group”.
② In the GLUI menu below, input the
name directly by typing > Click the
member in the View window and
Apply.

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Define Member Group (Method 2)

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From 1 to 5 From 1 to 5

Set design grouping of members. In order to automatically generate member list from drawing, there must be grouping information.
At this time, I will explain the second method of grouping.
① Design Tab in the main menu > Design Group > Click ‘Define Design Group’
② Select the member type in the dialog > Create Group Name as shown figure then Add
③ Check the Design Group List (From SG 1 to 5, & From 2SG 1 to 5)
④ Drag and drop from the work tree to the View window to assign the member group
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Generating Grid Method
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Grid is required to automatically generate structural drawings by drawing for steel structures. There are two ways to create a grid. First, create a grid directly before
modeling. Second, modeling first and then to extract the grid. In the case of RC structures, the grid is not necessary because the floor information becomes the floor
plan information.
① Check the created Grid in the View window
② Right-click on the Grid Set in the work tree and click Modify > Check the Grid information (X, Y, Z Level)

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Generate Drawing
All model Information will be moved to
drawing SW after processing data

① Drawing program is automatically

executed and the process of
exporting modeling information is in
progress.
② Click OK on the midas Drawing DS
dialog when all data information is
converted.

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Structural
Drawing Manager

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Rebar
Arrangement
Manager

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Generate Design Overview

The design outline of the contents created in Project Information

of the nGen program is automatically shown in the drawing.

① Click Generate Drawing tab on the main menu > Click

“Generate Structural Design Overview”.
② Specify the insertion point at the command line or Click point
in the View window.

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Generate the plan drawing

① Click the Generate Structural Plan

② After checking on the list, click OK button
③ Specifying the insertion point from the command line or Click the point in the View window > Click once
again to specify the arrangement distance

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Generate the section drawing

Set the range of depth

Start Point End Point

There are two ways to create structural sections. (Generate Structural section / Generate Structural section(Axis Offset))
To create the structure section drawing is a method of extracting by clicking the desired location on the floor plan.
① Click ‘Generate Structural Section’
② Type the name of the section in the command line and press Enter on the keyboard.
③ Click the start point when prompted to specify the start point and scale in the command line.
④ If you want to create a different section scale, click S and typing the desired scale. ex) 1: 50 or 1:200
⑤ In the View window, specify the starting point and then click the next point Space > Set the visible range
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Generate the section drawing (Axial Offset)
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2
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There are two ways to create structural sections. (Generate Structural section / Generate Structural section(Axis Offset))
The other method of generating a section drawing is the axis specified by using the Grid to extract the section drawing.
① Click ‘Generate Structural Section(Axis Offset)’.
② From the command line, select the axis you want to extract or click the entire grids.
(In this tutorial, we will select two grid lines, Column A and Column 2.) (Multiple section drawings can be output at the same time.)
③ Click then Space Bar > Set the range of depth.
④ After clicking the arrangement interval in the view window, the section drawing will be extracted.

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Generate the
member list
① Click Generate Drawing tab on the
main menu > Click ‘Generate
member list’.

② Steel tab in the dialog > Confirm the

list (Automatically check on modeled 1
members only.)

③ After confirming the insert point on

the command line, click the point at
the appropriate position in the View
window.

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Generate
Quantities (B.O.M) 2

① Click Generate Drawing tab on the

main menu > Click ‘Generate Bill of
Material’.

② Check the items in the Quantity in 1

the BOM Options dialog box and
click OK.

③ Check the quantity calculation by

Excel.

[Note]
Steel Type2 means cutback quantity. It means the
subtracted quantity. Therefore, Type2 quantity is always
calculated less than Type1 quantity.

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Remove annotation overlap
① Click Generate Drawing tab on the main menu > Click ‘Remove annotation overlap’.

② By selecting the objects for overlapping layers and removing them, the object is
automatically separated so that it does not overlap.

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Arrangement for drawing on sheet

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① Move to the Draw Lib Tab on the work tree

② Drag & Drop registered sheet to the view window
③ Arrange the sheets (for example 3 sheets in this tutorial)
④ Window Tab in the work tree > Double click the CAD Mode > Drag & Drop generated drawing in the sheet
⑤ If the drawing does not match a scale, revise the scale value in the sheet

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Arrangement for drawing on sheet
1 1

2 2

3 3

When placing automatically generated drawings on 5 sheets as in the previous page, various items described below (parts with a red box) are automatically updated
through the information tag function.
① PROJECT TITLE changes through the automatic update function of the project information
② DRAWING TITLE changes through the automatic update function of the project information
③ SCALE is changed through the automatic update function of the project information
④ Select object > Properties Tab in the work tree > Any modification to object information is possible
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Plot Model

① File Tab in the main menu > Plot (Short key : Ctrl + P)
② Print/plotter in the dialog > Select the midas File Printer
③ Check On the ‘Fit to paper’
④ Click the ‘select sheet’ of the continuous output in the plot area
⑤ Select all in the Sheet Plot Manager dialog box and confirm
⑥ Click OK in the Plot-Model dialog > PDF or EMF (EMF can use the Auto generate report in nGen.)
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Export dwg file
① File Tabl in the main menu > Click
the ‘Export’.

② Click the current window : Export a

dwg file for all sheets shown in the
view window. 2
1

③ Export sheets as dwg files : Each 3

sheet will be exported individually as

a single dwg file.

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STEP 5. Edit Template Function
Setting of Template : Import ‘Sample Layer’ file
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① Click Import > Import Sample Layer. dwg

② Change the scale from 1:300 to 1:100

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Setting of Template
: Setting for Template
modification

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① Window Tab in the work tree > Copy the temporary template you want to
use.
② Mouse right click > Change the name as “Sample”.
③ Double click & Click ‘set to current’. 4 5
④ Import all the layers at the 1:100 scale of the previous page as sample
templates with Copy & Paste.
⑤ Enter the view scale from the command line <1:100> and Space Bar >
Place it where you want it.

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Edit
the template layer
(Method 1)
① Short cut “ma” in the command
line > Setting the layer style you
want using the Match function in the
template.

① When the drawing is automatically

generated again, the drawing is
generated with the changed
template.

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Edit
the template layer
(Method 2)
① If there is a layer to be modified
other than using the “ma” shortcut,
select the layer first and then go to
the tree menu properties tab.
② General, Scale information, Lines
and Arrows, Character can be
modified of the properties tab.
③ In the same way, you can select and
modify information on the properties
tab for various layers.
④ when several layers are selected at
once, the common properties
appear on the Properties tab.
⑤ It is recommended to change each
layer.

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Edit member list
templates
① Window Tab in the Work Tree >
Templates > Members List
Template > Standard List Template

② Double click the DRAWING MODE

to change the environment.

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③ Generate Drawing Tab in the main
menu > Click ‘Generate Member
List’.

④ You can change the member list

style in the generate member list
dialog.

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STEP 6. ETC. (Other Functions)
Register the LISP

① After typing “appload” in the command line then enter

② Apply in drawing program after loading LISP file (same method like Autocad)
③ Click the ‘Add(A)’ button
④ Open with *.lsp file

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Modify
custom commands
① Tools in the main menu >
Customize > Edit Allases (mcad.pgp)

② Modify custom commands.

③ Edit the notepad then save & close.

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Thank you