Leaderboard

I have few points on this comment. 1) How can you say that 40Psf is high value for snow load without asking him the location of building. The building, in question, is located in northern areas where there can be at-least 2 feet snow. 2) Your point number 1 is only valid for a situation where both top and bottom chords of truss are connected to beam. The truss in question is pratt, or Howe; consequently, only bottom chord is connected to beam.

OK ,, thanks alot

You can keep it unchecked as then stiffness is automatically transformed to account for the offset location of the object centroid by using built in constraints.

You can use cardinal points. There is a somewhat similar topic on the forum http://www.sepakistan.com/topic/1449-beam-slab-joint/

W.s Bayan, you should always model node to node. If you don't put beam end on the center of column and that distance is greater than merge tolerence for joints, you will have no load transfer. For cases where beams are placed eccentric to column locations, you can use cardinal points to account for the offset/ eccentricity.