Hi IvG,
This may be due to the fact that ETABS reports absolute and total horizontal displacements at each floor (and deducts one from the floor above to report inter-storey drift), including the displacemnet caused by rotational deformation (this is only an issue in tall slender structures)...
Hi Murali, many thanks- yes, I have rechecked the gridlines, and even though the shear wall is on the grid, it does not appear.
On a related issue, I did add a developed shear wall remote from a gridline and that did not appear as well. Perhaps the section line needs to be exactly on the...
Hi, can anyone please explain why some shear wall objects on plan are not visible in the elevation of that gridline in the adjacent window, whilst others on the same plan are visible?
I am using ETABS NL version 8.5.0. However, if I set the elevation window to 3-D view, then the missing shear...
