The problem I am having is that I have a crane rail which is basically a compound section which I have had to define as a user defined section and calculate the properties.
When I use the method given in the STAAD help file, (attached scan) it won’t calculate a utilization factor for the custom member.
I have used the ‘Section Wizard’ to develop the user defined section, this calculates the properties, and also creates a UPT file which gives me all the properties to include for the member,
(The UPT file created in ‘Section Wizard’ opens in wordpad. This gives the text to insert into STAAD editor in the format given in the help file)
When I go into Structure > 3D Sections > Sections Outline in the 'Diagrams' Dialogue Box It does not show the representative section just a rectangular box shaped section.
I had read somewhere that it should assign the correct 3D sectional view when the section properties of the section created in Section Wizard are attributed to a member.