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[motorphotos Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close motorphotos]

Hi Tony

Trust you are well

I am writing some scripts to design catnic lintels and have come across a bit of a problem which I cannot fathom

Output.Add('Required lintel length = '+FormatFloat('####',LLength)+' mm. (span, '
+FormatFloat('0.0#',Span)+'m. is to centre of bearings), min 150mm bearings');

Output.Add('');
Output.Add('Unfactored load carried by lintel = '+FormatFloat('##.0',TotLoadu)+' kN');
Output.Add('');

I thought TotLoadu was the unfactored load but it seems to use the factored load so always appears to give a lintel greater than necessary

Am I using the wrong figure in the script ?

Also in another script for catnic CGE lintels it stops at the line below

Output.insert(1, '<e>Use Catnic Cavity Lintel nominal width') - its the e that has the < > in red so assume this is the problem but its same line I
lifted from the catnic cg lintel script which apart from using the wrong load

many thanks and stay safe

regards

John

[Tony Bryer Administrator Find all posts View Profile Close Tony Bryer]

Thanks for the report: I've checked this out and as you say the factored load is incorrectly returned for TotLoadu if you have selected 6.10 as the load entry option. The correct value is returned if 6.10a/b is selected. I cannot replicate the problem with the <e> (emphasise) tag but note that the error messages sometimes don't report the correct location of the error.

[motorphotos Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close motorphotos]

Hi tony

where do I change the load entry option it says there are buttons to change this but I cannot see it probably me being daft

does this change the load on a beam by beam basis as I dont want to do something that changes the whole project

regards

John

[Tony Bryer Administrator Find all posts View Profile Close Tony Bryer]

Sorry, I missed this one: it's set in Project, Project Details and is a project-wide setting.