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

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

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

b.Verify whether the desired tributary element was incidentally specified as a support during the previous approval step.  Any element specified to act as a support for a beam is automatically disqualified from acting as a tributary element for that same beam.  You can easily review supports specified in the previous step by clicking the “Supports” tab on the approval form.  This will automatically highlight the approved supports by selecting them in the Revit view.