Question:
How would you best model hold down elements within panels?
Answer:
In a short overview, creating hold down elements involves modeling rigid links and adding in nodal supports with non-linearity settings that allows the supports to take only tension forces. A line support is added at the bottom of the wall that only takes compression forces. The individual nodal supports connected with rigid members only take tension forces.
A more detailed look on how these elements can be model can be seen in the video below.