Create Field From Free-Body Sections

Use the FBD Manager to create pairs of entities, <field, table>. Translational degrees of freedom and Rotational degrees of freedom are separate fields. This tool creates a field per loadcase and free-body section.

  1. From the Post ribbon, select the FBD Manager tool from the Plot group.


    Figure 1.
    The FBD Manager dialog opens.
  2. Select free-body sections.
  3. Select loadcases to consider.
  4. From the Options tab, define the Tolerance.
  5. From the Export tab, select Free body forces/moments, Grid point forces/moments, or Displacement/Rotation.
  6. If Grid point forces/moments is selected, select relevant contributions to take into account.
  7. Click .
    The Create Fields from FBD dialog opens.
  8. Select sources to create field based on result type and click Create.