Shear Walls

Shear wall and analytical wall definitions and drawings are made in this section.

Shear Walls

Figure 1

→ Click Shear Wall button as shown in Figure 1 to draw shearwall polygon.

→ Select/Edit shear wall material in the spreadsheet as demonstrated in Figure 3

Figure 2

Figure 3

→ Click Plan View Cutout button as shown in Figure 1 to draw a cutout in an enclosed shearwall polygon. Draw area to be cutout from shearwall polygon and press “enter”.

Figure 4

Figure 5

Analytical Walls

Figure 6

→ Click Analytical Wall button as in Figure 6 to draw analytical lines linked to shearwalls as illustrated in Figure 7.

Figure 7

Figure 8

Properties of the analytical wall such as thickness can be edited later as shown in Figure 8.

→ Click No Break Pts to divide the analytical line and set different properties to each part of the analytical wall.

If analytical wall intersects another analytical wall from middle, intersection point must be assigned as break point in intersected analytical wall as demonstrated in Figure 9.

Figure 9

Different thickness and refline offset can be assigned to analytical wall with break points by entering “,” between values.

Corner intersection of two analytical walls linked to one shear wall must be as in Figure 10.

Figure 10

→ Click Show button as in Figure 9 to see elevation view of analytical wall as illustrated in Figure 11.

Figure 11

→ Click Wall Opening button shown in Figure 8 while in elevation view to draw opening to analytical wall.

→ Select shape of the opening as demonstrated in Figure 12. Draw the opening to analytical wall.

Figure 12

→ Click Show Story button as in Figure 8 to go back to plan view.

Figure 13

Figure 14

If analytical line is not in the middle of shear wall, user must enter a reffline offset distance in order to create correct analytical wall as illustrated in Figure 13&14.