Organization of This Manual
We have tailored the content of all of the ETABS manuals more toward a design engineer than a computer analyst. This manual is divided into six parts in two separate volumes that are described below :
Volume 1
Chapters 1 through 3: General introduction and information on installation and getting help. This is the "Getting Started" portion of the manual.
Chapters 4 through 6: A general overview of ETABS. Chapter 6 provides useful information about how to create models in ETABS.
Chapters 7 through 19: Detailed discussion of each of the ETABS menus.

Volume 2
Chapters 20 through 33: Additional detailed information on selected ETABS topics.
Chapters 34 through 44: Documentation of the analysis output for ETABS.