Navigation:  Working With Beam Calculations > Beam Supports > Troubleshooting Support Detection Issues

This section provides recommendations for resolving a number of common issues related to support detection.

1.Problem:  Desired support is not automatically suggested during calculation launch.

a.Verify that the beam to be designed and the desired supporting element physically intersect with each other.

b.If the desired support is a beam, verify that it has not been modeled as a diagonal brace.  Braces are not considered as support candidates.

 

 

c.If the desired support is a beam, verify that the support’s structural usage property is not set to “Horizontal Bracing”.

 

 

d.If the desired support is a wall, verify that the wall’s structural usage property is set to a mode that is capable of bearing behavior.