SCIA Engineer Tutorial: Free loads

[@PrcoorcP]

Please, I have a question, if you don't mind. At 19:30-19:45, if you didn't want to add load by Local coordinate system of the pool's wall, but according to Global coordinate system - why would the option Direction: Z in GCS make the load point downward? You made the GCS so that the Z axis points horizontally (through the screen's plane), so I would expect the load to pointed in the same way it pointed when you chose Z direction of LCS, only the opposite way. It's like it doesn't matter whether you change the GCS or not, because Z axis is vertical in the original, unchanged coordinate system, not this one. Thanks in advance.

[@jairocaicedo3431]

Please can you make a video with SCIA showing how to model pile cap?

[@most39pc10]

Thx for videos like this. Help a lot

[@anatolnajdek]

Thank You!

[@gojekbatamdriver9621]

This very good information, and please how can me get this software and training, thanks

[@IvanBeles]

Thank you for the nice comment. You can download the trial version here: www.scia.net/en/forms/scia-engineer-trial-request About training, the best way is to contact your local SCIA representative: www.scia.net/en/connect If you cannot find some dealer, contact me please on [e-mail] and I will forward your e-mail to the correct person.

[@kt-nf2jx]

Thanks for the tutorial. Unfortunately (and surprisingly), the free loads in Scia are not converted to mass, so they shouldn't be used when dynamic analysis is considered.

[@IvanBeles]

Yes, correct. But there are many applications, where dynamic analysis is not necessary. And if somebody forgets, there are free loads, he will get a message during the converting of loads to masses. It is also very easy to create surface masses manually. For example, the live loads are divided to some patterns, but it is not necessary to do it for seismic analysis. Mainly for seismic analysis, one average surface mass is enough. There will be newer everything automatically. (But it would be great).