Review Tool
Plot area moments of inertia and stiffness.
Introduction
Access the Review tool from the Mesh ribbon by clicking on the satellite icon (the magnifying glass) on the Mesh tool.
The selected element must have a beamsection entity assigned to its property in order to extract data names to contour or vector plot. If a material is assigned with young modulus or shear modulus available, stiffness terms are calculated. Shear modulus is not recalculated from Poisson's ratio.
In the image above, the neutral axis line shows discontinuities in neutral axis position. This could be due to element formulation changes (CBAR vs. CBEAM) or inconsistent offset values. The shear center line displays the shear center position after offset. This is useful when you don't know the actual section shape.