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Hi,
Referring to the attached file, the structure need to be constructed in such a way that many of the members are offset from each others (center lines do not match each others). Is it appropriate to assign member offset command for this case, in order to take into account of the actual offset of the structure?
2nd question: There is warning (as shown below) coming out when i assigned member offset and carried out deflection checking on the same member. Please explain how does it affect the results of the deflection checking.
*** WARNING : MEMBER 56 IS PART OF A BEAM WHICH HAS OFFSETS. DEFLECTION CHECK MAY NOT BE ACCURATE.