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Hi everyone, I have a complex building which has a few grid systems, to make the question simple we say one globle grid system and one 45 degree grid system (system 2), I know I can switch between the two systems and the coordinate of points shown are consistent with each grid system. But when I...

I am fairly new in etabs just like you, regarding snow drift I will assign typical snow load on the main roof area, and draw some null areas for snow drift area and assign additional snow drift load on these null areas, but I found in ETABS no way to assign tapered area load to slab or null area...

Hi everyone, In Safe version 12, can we show slab design reinforcement (strip based) together with our defined strip and width? I found even if I already set display options as strip layer and strip width on, when I go to DISPLAY- SHOW SLAB DESIGN, the strip can not be shown on the page. That is...

It's good to know. Thank you very much! Regards,

Hi everyone, I am pretty new in etabs and in steel structure design, but I tried several times using etabs doing analysis and design of simple supported steel beam, I usually use auto selection list letting the program decide the proper section for the member, it worked before. I am trying to...

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Thank you very much. I will try it that way. But I found under steel frame design, there is one command setting bracing for the member, I also tried this, but making no difference for design result, for my understanding it refers to bracing out of plan, is it right? when we use this?

Hi everybody, I'm new user of Etabs, I built a triangle steel truss model using Etabs, top chord and bottom chord were modeled as continuous member, inside webs are pinned to top and bottom chord, the calculated internal forces seem to be right, but in member design, the program consider the...