In STAAD, when you double-click a member, one of the choices is "Loading". You click on that tab and you get the various loads on that member. OK, that makes sense. When you double-click on a node and click on "Loads' you get . . . wait, what is that? That's not the loads on this particular node. After some playing around I finally figured out it's showing me all the loads in the last load case I picked when I was in the "Load & Definition" window.
It looks like it's the same table you would get if you chose Tables from the Windows group on the View ribbon and picked "Load Values." This table doesn't even tell you what load case it is referring to. I've just done a little more playing around with and I see you can actually change load directions and values. It doesn't display the members and joints that the loads are applied to though. I'm curious does any one out there actually use that table. Pause while we listen to the crickets.
But my really burning question is why, oh why would you double click on a node to get to this table? Sorry but that makes zero sense to me. It would be much more useful to me if you could see all the loads applied to a node similar to how it's done for members.
