User Guide

RISA-3D User’s Guide
Version 5.0
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The remaining fields define which material types will be designed / checked for
that load combination. This way we will never get an NDS wood code check for
the strength level load combinations used for concrete design.
Review the information in this screen to make sure the design data is the same as
above, then close the spreadsheet by clicking the button.
Displaying Loads
Now click the Select All button to select the entire model.
RISA-3D provides easy ways to view your loads. They may be displayed as
Basic Cases, Categories or Combinations. First we will go through the basic
cases.
On the Window Toolbar, just to the right of the Toggle Loads button, click
on the down arrow in the drop-down list and choose “BLC 2:Wind Load”.
You may go through all of the Basic Load Cases in this manner if you like.
Now we will look at the load combinations.
Click the Switch Loads
button one time and you will see the loads by
combination.
The drop-down list box on the Window Toolbar now lists all of the load
combinations instead of the basic cases and the view now shows the loads as they
are factored in the load combinations.