Beams

Figure 1

Beam Section has 2 spreadsheets as shown in Figure 1.

3D Beam

→ Click Draw Beam button to start drawing beam object.

Drawings drawn by this command will be reflected in 3D view.

Figure 2

Figure 3

Figure 4

→ Select/Edit the material and enter depth of the beam in the spreadsheet as demonstrated in Figure 4

→ Enter elevation offset (if necessary)

→ Select type of the beam

Analytical Lines

Select Analytical Lines from spreadsheet data as shown in Figure 1.

Figure 5

→ Click Draw Analytical Beam as shown in Figure 5 to draw analytical lines linked to beam object.

Figure 6

Analytical wall drawings will be automatically overlayed when analytical beam command is active in order to show the end nodes of analytical wall.

Yellow points show the end nodes of analytical beam line and pink points show the end nodes of analytical wall shown in Figure 6.

Figure 7

→ Enter the width and depth of the analytical beam in the spreadsheet as shown in Figure 7.

→ Enter Refline Offset(if necessary) and Vertical Offset(if necessary) in the spreadsheet as shown in Figure 7.

User can divide the analytical line into parts and give them different properties such as thickness.

Figure 8

→ Click No Break Pts and click the point where the line will be divided as illustrated in Figure 8 and Figure 9.

Figure 9

If the analytical line does not pass through the center line of beam, reffline offset must be entered in order to create correct analytical beam as illustrated in Figure 10 and Figure 11.

Figure 10

Figure 11

Analytical beam drawings will be reflected in finite element model view.