In 1•2•Build you can define point loads and uniformly distributed. To make this possible, you must first make sure that the icon field loads within the palette active by clicking on it. Note that below loads, dead load is indicated. All loads you define, will be considered dead loads and automatically with appropriate safety factors be taken into account.
Now select the node 3 using the previously described manner (you might need to set the node numbers visible using the icon 
from the toolbar button). The icon 
opens the following dialog allowing you to define a vertical load of 10kN. Confirm it with ‘OK’.
This vertical load point can also be defined on the ‘descent of loads’ function, (NOT available in the demo version). Select the entire span between the nodes 1 and 2 using a selection window (from top left to bottom right). With the icon 
apply a distributed load of 18kN/m over the selected span:
Again, you can use the ‘descent of loads’ function to define this load. You now have the following permanent loads defined on the continuous beam:
Did you make a mistake when entering the loads? Don’t panic, select the point or the span for which you want to correct the load. With the DELETE key on your keyboard, you can remove the corresponding loads, to then give the correct definition.
Finally, we indicate which life loads is acting on the beam. Just click with the left mouse button on the arrow in the field dead load, which pull out the following list:
Move the mouse to ‘live loads’, and select it by pressing the left mouse button. Now select the entire beam and define a uniformly distributed load of 10kN/m:
There you go. Dead and live loads are defined, while the weight of the beam automatically will be calculated as a function of the cross-section provided by 1•2•Build. Based on these loads, 1•2•Build will generate all the combinations according to the Eurocodes based on these loads, to safely design this continuous beam.
