Enter Area Load

Tool(s): Special Loads

You can use Enter Area Load to create area loads.

To create an area load

1. Click Special Loads (How).
   

   Activate Special Loads in one of the following ways

   • Actionbar:Role Precast Elements Task Precast Slab Task area Structural Calculation

   • Menu bar: Create Precast Elements Precast Slab

   • Palette: Tools Create area in the following module(s):

   Precast Slab

2. Select the required load case by clicking Define Load Case.
3. Click Enter Area Load on the Special Loads Context toolbar.
4. In the input options, click DefPln (abnormal load in default plane) or Design (abnormal load on design). When you select DefPln, you must place the load on the upper default plane. When you select Design, you must place the load on the structure (for example, on the sloping roof surface).
   Note:
   You can define the default planes using the List Default Planes tool in the Annotations task area.
5. Click Area Load Pz on the Area Load Context toolbar. Enter the load in [kN/m²].
6. Click Perpendicular to roof plane or Vertical to roof plane on the context toolbar to define the load direction of a wind load acting as an area load on a roof area.
   

   Load direction

   When a point load, line load or area load acts on a roof element, you can define the load direction of a wind load here.

   Vertical to roof surface	At right angles to roof surface

   A Roof surface

   B Single load PZ

7. You can also use Match existing area loads.
8. Place the corner points one after the other. To close the outline, press ESC after you have entered the next to last point.
9. Click Cancel to finish entering area loads.