https://communities.bentley.com/products/ram-staad/f/ram-staad-forum/132202/manually-design-the-plinth-beamI want to manually design the plinth beam for a steel structure and extract the loads from staad which loads shall i consider? i have 3 critical cases and pinned footings so i have Fx Fy Fz ,how to take them as a load for manually designing theen-USTelligent Community 12https://communities.bentley.com/thread/403581?ContentTypeID=1Sat, 25 Feb 2017 13:53:58 GMT6dad98f5-dbc9-4c4d-a9ba-e9da8dc6aa8e:aec92afa-a4c3-4945-812c-a6ede794c1abKushHi,<br /> <br /> Just make sure you have all the strength load combinations defined. The design forces can be obtained from Post-Processing Mode &gt; Beam &gt; Forces &gt; Maximum Axial and Shear Forces. You can also print Max Forces in output file by command PRINT MAXFORCES from Analysis/Print &gt; Post Print &gt; Define Commands &gt; Max Force and assign the command to required members.<div style="clear:both;"></div>