I'm SO glad they have a risa forum here now. My old posts regarding Risa questions got deleted by the admin...
We analyze residential foundation systems using Risa 3d, which sometimes get fairly large. We are constantly coming across the situation where we have to manually input lateral soil pressures on each plate, which is a time consuming process. Does anyone have any tips or tricks they use to apply soil loads to their plate models in a time efficient manner? We model our foundations in 1'x1' plates. So the first row would have 50psf, the second 100psf etc (i.e. constant load accross a single plate).
We analyze residential foundation systems using Risa 3d, which sometimes get fairly large. We are constantly coming across the situation where we have to manually input lateral soil pressures on each plate, which is a time consuming process. Does anyone have any tips or tricks they use to apply soil loads to their plate models in a time efficient manner? We model our foundations in 1'x1' plates. So the first row would have 50psf, the second 100psf etc (i.e. constant load accross a single plate).
