Display error query: planar surface loading extents for panel-in-panel

[andrew.fraserVBHU4]

If you create a panel within an already existing panel (e.g. perhaps part of the structure has changed or you made an error in defining a panel earlier in the modelling process), RSA doesn't modify the outline of the applied load correctly if the new panel is on the boundary of the original one.

Is this a display issue in RSA or is there something else I should be doing in making this sort of refinement?

It is easier to see in an example and with respect to the attached image:

• Below the base panel is 10x10 and the load case is of a unit load.
• I have then defined a sub panel within this of 2x2 in the middle and right models, the highlighted panels
• In all instances the unit load is only applied to the panel it was assigned to as can also be verified by the reactions and from the loading table.
• In the middle example the change to the loaded area is picked up by the outline, on the right most model it isn't.

[Krzysztof_Wasik · Accepted solution]

Hi @andrew.fraserVBHU4 

It is issue with load display when panels has common edge. Load is not applied to internal contour (unless it was defined for it - it can be checked in load table). Reactions are caclulated correctly.

[andrew.fraserVBHU4]

Thank you Krzysztof.

It would be good if this graphical bug could be fixed as it makes checking a model rather difficult; having to use the load tables isn't likely to be a pragmatic option on complex models so being able to see it graphically is a good thing to have.

Ideally there would also be the built-in option to see area loading as a colour map as in some other software packages so it would be even clearer.