Enter Point Load

Tool(s): Special Loads

You can use Enter Point Load to create point loads.

To create a point load

1. Click Special Loads (How).
   

   Activate Special Loads in one of the following ways

   • Menu bar: Create Precast Factories Precast Floor

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

   Precast Floor

2. Enable the required load case by clicking Define Load Case.
3. On the Special Loads Context toolbar click Enter Point Load.
4. In the Input options, click either DefPln (Abnormal Load in Default Plane) or Design (Abnormal Load on Design). If you select DefPln, you should then place the load on the top default plane. If you select Design, you should then place the load on the structure (e.g., on the sloping roof surface).
   Note:
   You can define default planes using the List Default Planes tool in the General: Roofs, Planes, Sections module (Architecture family).
5. Assign parameters.

   The following options are available:

   Single load in Z direction

   

   Single load in Z direction

   This defines a concentrated, arbitrary single load P that is applied in the z direction.

   

   A Plane of the monitor

   B Single load PZ
   

   You enter the value of the single load at the keyboard. If the load is applied downwards, then no sign needs to be entered.

   Load direction

   

   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

   For more information on an attribute listed above, click it.

6. You can also use Match to read and copy the load entry from a single point.
7. Then click the point on the precast unit at which the point load is to be applied.
8. Click Cancel to finish.