Create Displacement and Rotation Responses

Use the Disps. tool to create displacement and rotation responses from selected nodes.

1. Do one of the following:
   • From the Design Explorer ribbon, Responses tools, click the Disps. tool.

     
     
     Figure 1.

   • Click the Disps. tool satellite icon . In the Responses dialog, click .
2. Use the drop-down menu on the left side of the guide bar to select the response type.
3. Select one or more nodes.
   Selecting the first node will create a response and add it to the Design Explorer Browser. The response will be the maximum absolute value of the displacement/rotation for the selected node(s).
4. In the microdialog,
   1. Optional: Rename the response.
   2. From the drop-down menu, select the component of the displacement or rotation to be measured.