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 guide bar is displayed.
  2. From the guide bar's drop-down menu, select Create field.
  3. Select free-body sections.
  4. Select loadcases to consider.
  5. From the guide bar, click to display the options. Define the Tolerance.
  6. From the Force contributions drop-down menu, select Free body forces/moments or Grid point forces/moments.
  7. If Grid point forces/moments is selected, select relevant contributions to take into account.
  8. From the microdialog, click Create applied forces or Create applied moments .
  9. Click Create .