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Beams that fall at a location where different floors bear on different portions of the beam are best analyzed using the “Complete Contour” mode.  While a sparser sampling mode might create a similar loading diagram, it may not be dense enough to accurately locate the transition between floors.

 

This loading scenario results in two partial uniform loads of differing magnitudes, corresponding to the portions of the beam supporting the different floors. Since they are segmented, the loads are mapped to the “Span Loads” tab.