User Guide

RISA-3D User’s Guide
Version 5.0
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Click OK. Items at the 10 foot elevation are selected like this:
Drawing Plates
Now we can define the floor by drawing and submeshing plates.
Click on the Draw / Modify Plates button. Leave the Material set to
“gen_Conc3NW”. Then click in the Thickness field and change this to “3”.
The dialog should look like this:
Now click Apply to draw the plates.
To start, click on the closest corner joint and then move to the right corner joint
and click again.
As you move the mouse from the joint you’ll notice the double lines attached to
the mouse cursor that define the interior of the plate element.
Now move to the back corner and click, then move to the left corner and click
again and the first plate appears in rendered form with its thickness shown to
scale.