Beam Loads

The Beam Loads Command provides you watching the forces acting on the beams (wall, slab dead, slab live loads) graphically on the screen.

Select the beam.

Click Beam Loads from the Analysis menu.

The 3D view of the beam will appear on the screen.

You may rotate the beam using the arrow keys, zoom in and out by Z and Shift+Z keys, enlarge or reduce the scale of the ruler by A and Shift+A keys, open or close the ruler by S key, rotate the beam around Z axis by R key, open or close the beam by K key.

If you press 1, 2, 3 and 4 from the numeric keyboard you can see the own loads of the beam, the wall loads on the beam, the slab loads acting on the beam from the left and right sides respectively. You can make dead or live load selection by pressing the H key.

You may see the diagram colored by pressing the space-bar.