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Follow the next steps to add Stories to the BDS project. |
Table 1: Stories
| 1 | Go to Stories from tree view. Click Add button and adding “1” floors. Enter 12 feet at the elevation of floor. |  |
| 2 | Enter Story Height value and Defult Materials Type data. |  |
| 3 | Set the previously uploaded drawing file to 1st Floor. |
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| 1 | Go to Shearwall under 1st Floor from tree view. Click the “Shearwall” button and draw Shearwall while following the overlayed drawing. |  | |||||
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| 3 | Go to Analytical Definition Tab under Shearwall in spreadsheet. Click “Analytical Wall” button and draw Analytical Wall while following the overlayed drawing. Adjust the analytical wall thickness value according to the shearwall thickness. |  | |||||
| 4 | When 2 analytical walls intersect, BDS automatically assigns a break point to the analytical wall on the intersection. |  | |||||
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7: Load
| 1 | Go to Shearwall under 1st Floor from tree view. Click “Area” button and draw load area according to Load Schedule. |  | |||||
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| 3 | Right click on LG 1 line at spreadsheet. Click on "Duplicate" in combobox. Assign a name and load case to new load that cover same area as LG 1. |  | |||||
| 4 | Click the Area button again to load other areas. Use "Dublicate" to load 2 different load cases in the same area. |  | |||||
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| 6 | Click “Line” button and draw load area according to Load Schedule. Draw Line Load around the entire circumference, offsetting the circumference of the slab edge 1 inch inward. Assign load cases to the drawn Line Loads |  | |||||
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| 8 | Click “Check Load Pts”button. If some points in the drawing are incorrectly intersected or cannot intersect due to CAD objsnap settings, this button provides these points to intersect. |  | |||||
| 9 | Click “Refresh Load Distribution Factors” button. This button shows how much percent load the Loads affect on which column. |  | |||||
| 10 | %0 → All load affects to Shearwall %100 → All load affects to this Column | ||||||
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Table 7: Beam
| 1 | Go to Shearwall under 1st Floor from tree view. Click the “Shearwall” button and draw Shearwall while following the overlayed drawing. | |
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The General Properties & Modelig part is completed in this step. You can proceed to the Slab Analysis and Slab Design section. |