FE Surface Loading
The FE surface loading editor can be accessed from MasterFrame by selecting Loads>📄 FE Surface Loading. This will open the FE Surface pane on the right hand side of the screen on the Loading Tab. On first entering the Loading area, no loads are defined. The screen layout is shown below.
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To add a load to an FE surface, first click on the .png)
icon. The Load List will now indicate a load has been added to the Load List and the load type icons
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will now appear. The load types icons are:
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- Area loads. Area loads are applied to the full FE surface.
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- FE point loads. Point loads are positioned using Load Points
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- FE line loads. Line loads can be arbitrary shapes and are positioned using Load Points.
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- FE patch loads. Patch loads can be arbitrary shapes and are defined using Load Points. The first and last load point must be the same LP to form a close boundary.
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- FE perimeter loads. Perimeter loads can be applied to the outer boundary of an FE surface, or around an opening in an FE surface. Perimeter loads are defined using nodes rather than Load Points.