FBD Cross Section
Define a cross-section plane.
Free-body forces and moments will be calculated based on the elements the cross-section is intersecting. Those loads will be used by the FBD Forces tool or to build trace plots and VMT/Potato plots.
From the menu bar, click .

Figure 1.
- Name
- The name of the cross-section.
- ID
- The ID of the cross-section.
- Color
- The color the of cross-section.
- XTAIL, YTAIL, ZTAIL
- Defines the coordinates of the cross-section normal vector’s base point.
- Normal
- The cross-section normal vector’s direction.