The dropdown list at the bottom of the “Loads”-component lets one choose between different types of loads as shown in fig. 2.2.4.2. Gravity loads (1) act on the whole structure. The location of point loads (2) can be specified by node index or position. Beam loads (3) act on elements given by element identifiers. Distributed loads on arbitrary meshes (4) get reduced to approximately statically equivalent node and beam loads.