Hi All
Here in Denmark Seismic loading is merely defined as a percentage of the applied vertical load. In the past i've used NOTIONAL LOADS to create this and it worked fine. But only for Y axis as global vertical axis. I now use SET Z UP since it corresponds to the axis definitions all our clients use.
However, notional loads doesn't seem to Work properly when the command SET Z UP command is used. Can anyone explain this?
The alternative is to manually copy all vertical loads and change direction in the STAAD.Editor. But this is a very time consuming task and it also rather frustrating since loads tend to change a lot during the design phase.
Can anyone help me to explain this or alternatively give me a tip to avoid the manual re-entry of loads? Perhaps someone has created a macro for a similar task?
Thank You.
Kind regards
Morten