Selecting the Layout - Loads - Surface command causes the Surface Load Layout Mode dialog box to appear. The load properties must be specified in PropTable - Loads - Surface before being assigned; that command can also be invoked by selecting the Property Table >> button.

Clicking the Whole Floor, Add, Show, Change, or Delete buttons will cause the dialog box to disappear, and the RAM Modeler to enter the Surface Load Layout Mode.

Overlapping Surface Loads assignments can be made. Surface loads are not additive. The last assigned surface load takes precedence over any surface loads assigned previously (underneath it).

The best way to model the surface loads assignments is to first lay the most commonly used surface load over the whole floor using the Whole Floor command, and then overlay the areas in which other surface loads occur by using the Add command.

In order to load slab edge overhangs, you must ensure that the surface load assignment extends beyond the perimeter beams and over the slab overhangs. Not doing so will result in no load from the slab edge being distributed to the adjacent beam. Surface Loads polygons can be placed well beyond the slab edge, and will be clipped to the slab edge automatically by the program.

Return to the Surface Load Layout dialog box with the Right Mouse Button or the "D" key.

Return to the Layout - Loads menu with the "M" key.

Clicking Property Table >> button will bring up the PropTable_ - Loads - Surface dialog box.

Clicking the Cancel button or selecting any other RAM Modeler Layout command will end the Layout - Loads - Surface command.