Enter Area Loads

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

   • 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 Area 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. On the Area Load Context toolbar, click Area Load Pz. Enter the load in [kN/m²].
6. On the Area Load Context toolbar, click Perpendicular to roof or Vertical to roof to define the load direction of a wind load which acts as an area load on a roof surface.
   

   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 to read and copy existing area loads.
8. Set the corner points one after the other. To close the outline polygon, press ESC after the penultimate point.
9. Click Cancel to finish.