User Guide

Tutorial 3 - Loading
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Choose “LC 5:ASCE 3 (a)” from the drop down list.
This is a great way to verify that our model is solving the problem that we want it
to solve. One thing to note here is that the magnitudes of the loads represent the
factored combination. For example the displayed floor load magnitude is the
combination of the dead and live loads multiplied by their factors.
When you are finished viewing the load combinations click the Switch Loads
button once more to see loads by category.
Now the drop-down list on the Window Toolbar contains the Load Categories.
View the loads by category by selecting them from the list.
This concludes Tutorial 3. The next tutorial teaches you how to solve the model.
If you wish to stop and do tutorial 4 later, select Exit from the File menu.
Otherwise continue on and open the file at the beginning of Tutorial 4.