Agreed. This case is a truss w/ 20psf specified LL on top chord. Only looking at truss, no purlin w/ biaxial. Just trying to tune a RAM Elements model to match reactions, etc provided on output from a MiTek model. Thanks for chiming in.
I don't work in this stuff everyday, so please forgive me for the elementary nature of this question. ARE ROOF LIVE LOADS APPLIED VERTICALLY (GLOBAL -Y) TO SLOPED ROOF MEMBERS? (i.e. not perpendicular to sloped member?) Seems like they should bc big part of roof live is weight (i.e. vertical...
