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# Why Aren’t Design Results Showing Up?

Why design results are not appearing in ENERCALC 3D and the common setup steps that fix it.

## Why Aren’t Design Results Showing Up?

If you're not seeing any design results, it's usually because one or more essential setup steps were missed. Below are the most common reasons:

* **Load Combinations Not Set for Design**
  * Make sure you've set the load combinations to be used for the design.
  * Navigate to Create > Loads > Load Combinations and enable the options to perform steel or concrete design for each combination.
* **Materials and Sections Not Defined or Assigned**
  * Ensure all members have appropriate materials and sections assigned:
    * Go to Tables > Properties > Materials to define steel or concrete materials.
    * Go to Tables > Properties > Sections to define the section shapes.
    * Go to Tables > Entities > Members to assign the materials and sections to the members.
* **Sustained Load Combination for Concrete Columns Not Set**
  * For concrete design, check that a sustained load combination is set under Concrete Design > RC Model Design Criteria.
* **Static Analysis Not Yet Performed**
  * Analysis results must be available before a design can be performed. Run a static analysis via Analysis > Static Analysis. Be sure to review the Log File to ensure there are no errors or instabilities.

For more details on these steps, refer to the applicable sections in the User Manual for ENERCALC 3D.


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