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During the beam calculation launch process, hosted load elements are not detected by physical proximity to the beam.  Instead, they are detected exclusively by their hosting relationship to the beam whose calculation is being launched.  

NOTE:  It is NOT mandatory to enable the use of analytical model on a given beam element in order to launch a steel beam calculation.  Steel beam calculations can be launched, edited, and saved without checking the “Enable…” control on the Properties pane.

However, if the analytical model remains disabled on a given beam, the user will not be able to place hosted loads on the beam.  This is because hosted loads are hosted to the underlying analytical element rather than to the physical element.

Similarly, if the analytical model is disabled on a particular beam AFTER hosted loads have been created, then the hosted loads belonging to that analytical element will be automatically removed from the Revit model.

 

As indicated previously, hosted load elements detected during a beam calculation launch are mapped to the “Loads All Spans” tab in the ENERCALC SEL interface.  Since Revit hosted load elements automatically assume the full extents of the analytical element, all hosted loads detected during calculation launch automatically extend from the start of the beam to the end of the beam when populated in the ENERCALC SEL calculation.  At this time, no provision is made for scenarios where the extents of the analytical beam differ from the extents of the physical beam.

When multiple hosted load elements overlap with identical geometry but differing load cases, they are automatically consolidated to a single load item in the ENERCALC SEL interface.

 

When multiple hosted load elements overlap with identical geometry and repetitive load cases, they are not consolidated but instead will appear as individual load items in the ENERCALC SEL interface.

When multiple hosted load elements overlap with identical geometry and multiple repetitive load cases, the loads are consolidated into the lowest possible number of load items in the ENERCALC SEL interface.

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