I am wanting to apply loads (line/point) with a location that references the support location. For example, if my line load should only apply to the first span, instead of entering an actual number for the “End Location x_e” of that load, what formula reference can I enter for that load to change with the support location of the beam?
I see under the dropdown menu that the formula reference of the supports is “supports”. Would the actual reference be something like “supports_x1” or similar?
Hi @MaxStability thanks again for reaching out! For power users like you, the function matrixSubset(table_reference, row_index, column_index)is pretty useful to extract data from tables. Row and column indexes starts with 1. If you want to get the position of the third support from the image below, you would use matrixSubset(supports, 3, 2) which will be 10. Please notice that it reads the row and column indexes, so if you delete rows it you may need to update the indexes from the equation. But if you only change the values in supports, these are automatically updated downstream.
