Floor and Roof Panels - Area Loading and Construction (Pro)

Gravity Area Loading is an extremely useful tool in applying gravity dead and live loads across the floor and roof areas of your model. It enables you to apply loading to floor panels outlined by beams, and have the loads automatically distributed on to the members around the perimeter of the panel, depending on which direction you have chosen to span the panel. Thus the gravity loads can be quickly and easily applied to the frame saving a great deal of time. Patch loads, line loads and point loads can be added onto these panels and again these will be automatically distributed on to the adjacent members.

On each floor and roof level in turn, select the areas that have gravity loading on them. The loadings that were entered in the Editing Levels and their Default Values table will be applied to these loading panels for each specified level, unless they are overwritten or added to in the Loading – Override Level Defaults area. This allows you to modify the loads locally in areas where they are different than the defaults for that floor or roof level.

For full details on how to use these functions see Area Loading, Patch Loads, Line Loads, Alternate Load Groups and Bracing Members in the Loads chapter.

To access the Add Floor/Roof Panel - Area Loading Construction (Pro) function, go to Create>Add Floor/Roof Panel - Area Loading Construction (Pro). Alternatively, the are loading can be accessed through the Loads menu, by going to Loads>Floor/Roof Panel - Area Loading Construction (Pro).