Calculate free-body forces, moments, displacements and rotation.
FBD also consists of a set of tools to:
- Create and view free-body section forces and moments
- Show trace plots
- Generate .fbd files to create potato and VMT plots in
HyperGraph 2D
- Generate reports, loads and fields from free-body forces, moments,
displacements and rotations
Restriction: Only available in the Nastran,
Abaqus and OptiStruct solvers in the Aerospace user
profile.
Note: The result file must have stored nodal forces output. For OptiStruct and Nastran the
OUTPUT request is GPFORCES. For Abaqus it is
NFORC.
Note: Before using any of the free-body tools, result files must be imported.