I am not sure that the elements whose flange checks are required to be performed, must be declared as rigids or not as we used to do the checks manually.
I have a model, in which they are not declared as rigids, and some of the loadings exceed the allowable limits but the results are different when they are declared as rigids.
If they are not to be declared as rigids then there is no way we can enter the weights of the flanges.
Request thoughts...