I've been messing with alot of particular point loads along a model with alot of broken up elements. It would be easier for what I'm doing if there was a different way to identify where a load falls in a model.
Current Method: Manually identifying in excel where the point load would fall on a given element and using interpolation to find the x/L co-ordinate. EX: elements 1-100 are of varying lengths and are all consecutively numbered to represent a span. I manually Identify that the load falls on element 50 with an arbtrary x/L that relevant to just element 50.
Desired Method: Manually specify a range of elements (1-100 in this case) and specify x/L in terms of the total length of the 1-100 element group and let RM infer the load location on the appropriate element.
Any insight is appreciated.
It is possible to do it with load case variables definition. Try with IQVAR internal variable.
Ana Carla Peres
Senior Technical Support Engineer
Bentley BrIM