Create minimum design wind loadcases
Minimum design wind loads to
ASCE 7 can be automatically applied to windward wall and roof panels and open
structure wind load members via the wind wizard as follows:
- Click
- Run through the wind wizard and when you get to the Results page select Create Minimum Design Wind
Loadcases.
- After completing the wind wizard, add or auto generate the loadcases you require as described below.
Add a minimum design wind loadcase
Note: Before you can add minimum design wind loadcases, you must first run the wind wizard and select the Create Minimum Design Wind
Loadcases option.
Having created the minimum design wind loadcases, they can be added to automatically generated wind load combinations in the same ways as other wind loadcases.
Auto generate minimum design wind loadcases
Note: Before you can generate minimum design wind loadcases, you must first run the
wind wizard and select the Create Minimum Design Wind
Loadcases option.
Having created the minimum design wind loadcases, they can be added to automatically generated wind load combinations in the same ways as other wind loadcases.
Review minimum design wind loadcases
Once wind loadcases have been created they can be reviewed graphically by opening a wind view for the required direction and then selecting the desired wind loadcase from the Loading list.
If reviewing a minimum wind loadcase you can hover the cursor over the wind pressure profile that is displayed, as shown below, in order to see the applied pressure values in a tooltip.
Create a minimum design wind loadcases report
A table of the minimum design wind
loads applied to the model is available by including the "Wind Data" report item
in your reports.