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Non-shear walls are a portion of a wall line that is not intended to resist shear forces. The program ignores non-shear walls when distributing shear forces within the shear lines, and ignores shear lines composed entirely of non-shear walls when distributing lateral loads to the shear lines. Exterior non-shear walls are, however, designed for out-of-plane wind loads.
If all walls on a shear line are non-shear walls, then no shear loads are distributed to that shear line.
There are no hold-downs or hold-down forces at non-shearwall ends.
A drag strut is required across non-shear walls as if they were a gap in the shear line.
These walls appear hollow in Plan view and colored gray in Elevation view.