From the technical reference 5.32.4.2 Note e: At least one quadrilateral panel bounded on at least 3 sides by "complete" members has to be present within the bounds of the user-defined range of coordinates (XRANGE, YRANGE and ZRANGE) in order for the program to successfully generate member loads from the FLOOR/ONEWAY LOAD specification. A "complete" member is defined as one whose entire length between its start and end coordinates borders the specified panel.
My question is regarding "complete". Does this make the floor load feature not practical? Because 99% of the times the beams are not always necessarily intersecting at a column, there's always the case of secondary beams supported on main beams which makes this main beam segmented, hence "incomplete".
And regarding 5.32.4.2 Note d: do I have to do this by also adding dummy members?
If I decide to overlook the above (since it will take a lot of manual work) will the results be significantly different? Is there any automated way to avoid this challenge? I don't want to use plates because they weigh the file.
One more question, does modelling each slab with one plate will give acceptable results?