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Create Nodal Mass

There are cases where the masses associated with the structure and that which it supports are created as Loads. In some instances, particularly for exporting to other programs for dynamic analyses that do not have the facility to include the effects of applied loads, it can be useful to convert the loads to masses on nodes. It is possible to vary these masses between stages

At each node where a load is applied, a new mass property that matches that load is created and applied to that node.