2. Analysis

Go to Tributary under AEC|BOLT from tree view.

I want to make the tributary Area Factors of C20 and C24 columns 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

Come back to Tributary Analysis Settings and Run Tributary.

Go to Global FE Model frrom tree view.

"Run Mesh?" set the cell to True and click the "Generate FEM" button

Click “Run Analysis” button.

Click the close button when the AECBolt FE Analysis is complete.

Go to Roof under CSI SAFE from tree view.

After arrange settings as in the figure and click “Export Safe File”.

For save of the F2K file, select Safe16 as version and save.

Open Safe 2016 and import saved F2K folder.

After the project is imported to Safe, click "Run" button.

After completing the analysis, click the export button and select SAFE F2K File.

Enter project name, make selections in the combobox as in the figure.

Click Import Safe Results and select the F2K file saved in the previous step.

As seen in the figure, all rows should be checked.

Follow the above Safe Analysis steps for each stories.

For similar story floors do not require Safe Analysis