7. LOADS

CHAPTER 7 "CARGOES" 51 ATTENTION! Excel file loads can only be assigned to one load. If you have loads that you want to import into multiple loads, you must have a different Excel file for each load. Then and in the section below indicate from which column of Excel the nodes, forces and moments will be read in order to match them with those of SCADA Pro. More specifically: - In the " Node " option you indicate the column of Excel where the nodes ( Attention! ) of SCADA Pro that have been mapped in the previous step with those of SAP2000 are located. It is the additional column that you previously created in Excel. Correspondingly for each size you declare the column where the sizes from SAP2000 are located. - In the column " Co. " you define a numerical coefficient by which the load magnitudes will be multiplied. NOTE: Important here is the sign, in order to transfer the loads to the nodes with the correct times based on the convention of epicomponent forces and moments on the universal axes in SCADA Pro that you see in the following picture: - In the " Number of Blank Lines option you enter the number of first rows in Excel where they are rows that do not include the intensive quantities. For example , for the following Excel