You have to use a feature called FLOOR WEIGHT or ELEMENT WEIGHT under the DEFINE IBC .. command if you wish to have the slab weight considered for IBC weight calculations. In the absence of these, the only other choice is JOINT WEIGHT.
If you send this question to the STAAD Technical support...
There are 2 footing design facilities within STAAD.Pro :
1) Through the basic analysis engine. This uses a command syntax "START FOOTING DESIGN ... END FOOTING DESIGN".
2) Through the link/interface with STAAD.etc
Method 1 has a limitation in the sense that it requires the entire...
