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Hello Naqash, 1st of all welcome to this forum. And also try to spread this forum in your area/circle as much as possible, so that maximum people can take benefit of it. Naqash if you remember, in manual design of roof slab or footing slab, we use to consider a unit strip and design this unit strip for output results. Then we provide the steel and section calculated for this unit strip, to whole of footing or slab. Similarly, in Safe foundation, you are to define and assign design strip of unit width to let software show you output i.e. forces and steel etc for this unit design strip. you can also go for any width of design strip. Results will be accordingly but design will be same. Mostly a unit strip i.e. for MKS system 1 meter strip and for FPS 1 ft strip is defined and assigned. After running the model, you have two options to check your results of forces and reinforcement. 1) Based on Finite Elements In this method reinforcement and forces for each and every element, in which structure has been divided / meshed, will be reported. This is a bit different than our usual manual practice of designing. 2) Based on Design strips In this method reinforcement and forces are reported on strip based. This is quite easy to understand. You can check both methods for better idea. Another important thing is that we define 2 design strips "Strip A" and "Strip B" to read results in X and Y axis or in Shorter and Longer directions respectively. If you provide strip A in both X and Y directions, Then you will not be able to read results in X and Y axis, separately. display of results will be mixed. For this purpose we provide 2 different strips.