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The program now reports the unfactored beam reactions for all load types separately, whereas in Sizer 8, unfactored bearing reactions are reported for Dead and “Other”, meaning all other load types.
Categorising them as “Dead” and “Other” did not allow the wind, live, and snow loads to be distinguished in any way on supporting members. Furthermore, the “unfactored” reactions known as “Other” were not precisely all the loads other than dead added together without factors, instead they were the loads from the critical load combination with their factors removed. This was confusing, and of little practical use.
Now you are able to do more sophisticated load combination analysis on supporting members, in particular, applying the correct load duration CD factors to sub-combinations of the loads on the member. (e.g.Dead + Live with Cd of 1.0 vs Dead + Snow with CD of 1.15.
Note that the reactions from concentrated live loads are now reported in their own separate line as “Conc Live” , rather than being combined with other live loads.