Make a steel member to not take loads from claddings ?

[john.sodergran]

Hello

how do I tell the program that certain members are not supposed to take loads from claddings ?

I´m making a steel frame roof in robot 2012 and I have supporting members that are touching claddings that have snow loads on them, but in reality these members are a bit lower and do not take any of the snow load.

When I calculate the structure these members get a much higher ration than they should, because of the snow load.

I do not want to make them truss bars because their self weight have to be taken in consideration.

Kind Regards

[Romanich]

You can do this in two ways. First: select Geomretry > Additional Attributes > Load Distribution - Option

Second: in Object Inspector 

[john.sodergran]

Thank you! You made my day!