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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 “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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The “General Properties & Modelig” “Stories” part is completed in this step. You can proceed to the “Slab Analysis” section. |