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Go to Tributary under AEC|BOLT from tree view.

I want to make the tributary To set the Tributary Area Factors of C20 and C24 columns columns from C21 to C27 to 1.1 instead of "1 " for each floor.

Tributary results will be on the safe side by increasing the correction factor, for more conservative approach, increase the correction factor.

I need the "Live Load Reduction" code for this, if this code is not imported, add it from Design Criteria.

Go to Tributary Correction Factors Tab at same spreadsheet.

Hover over the "Name" column in the spreadsheet and right click. Select the filter from the combobox and select only column C20 and C24 from the list.

Set the "Tributary Area Factors" of columns C20 and C24 to 1.1 for each floor.

You can see Reducible Area on this spreadsheet.

Click the "Show" button to see the placement of a column for which you have increased the Tributary Area factors on the CAD side

, locate the corresponding area in the Tributary Correction Factors tab of the spreadsheet.

Once you have made the changes, you can view the Reducible Area of the columns by looking at the spreadsheet.

To see the placement of these columns on the CAD side, click the "Show" button.

To apply the changes and complete the Tributary Analysis, return to the Tributary Analysis Settings section and click the "Run Tributary.

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This will use the Tributary Area Factors and the other settings that you have defined to analyze the structure and calculate the loads on each element.

Go to To generate a finite element model (FEM) for the structure, navigate to the "Global FE Model frrom " section in the tree view. In the "Run Mesh?" column, set the cell to "True" and then click the "Generate FEM" button

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This will create a FEM for the entire structure using the geometry, properties, and loads that have been defined.

The FEM will be used to perform linear and non-linear analyses of the structure and to calculate the internal forces, deformations and stability of the structure.

Click “Run Analysis” button.

Click the close button when To perform the analysis on the finite element model, click the "Run Analysis" button.

The analysis will use the FEM, loads, and other settings that have been defined to calculate the internal forces, deformations, and stability of the structure.

Once the analysis is complete, a button will be displayed indicating that the AECBolt FE Analysis is completefinished. You can then click the "Close" button to exit the analysis.