Create Summary Tables

Create summary tables containing free-body forces and moments for one or multiple sections and for one or multiple loadcases.

Create Displacement/Rotation Summary Table

Use the FBD Manager tool to create summary tables with free-body displacements and rotations for the selected free-body sections and loadcases.

  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, select Free Body System or Global System for Resolve In.
  5. Define the Tolerance.
  6. From the Export tab, select Displacement/Rotation.
  7. Click .
    The summary table is created.
    Tip: To write displacements in Analysis System, use a Mesh based free-body section and set Resolved-In to Analysis System. Then select Free Body System.

    The table shows the proper system and ID per node ID.

    Restriction: Plane based section project displacement components in plane local system so results appear as FreeBody System for Resolve in, but there is no system ID written in the table.

Create Summary Table with Force and Moment

Use the FBD Manager tool to create summary tables with free-body forces and moments for one or multiple sections and loadcases. The summary table, and summary table summation points, can be used to create Potato/VMT plots.

  1. From the Post ribbon, select the FBD Manager tool from the Plot group.
    Figure 2.


    The FBD Manager dialog opens.
  2. Select free-body sections.
  3. Select loadcases to consider.
  4. From the Options tab, select Free Body System or Global System for Resolve In.
  5. Define the Tolerance.
  6. From the Export tab, select Free body forces/moments or Grid point forces/moments.
  7. Optional: If Grid point forces/moments is selected, select the relevant contributions to take into account.
  8. Select and select the summary table type.
    Summary table types:
    • Summary Table: shows all forces and moments for nodes and summation points.
    • Summary Table Summation Points: shows all forces and moments at summation points only.
    • Min/Max Table: shows the higher and lower values of forces and moments at summation points along the selected loadcases.
    The summary table is created.

Create Summary Table and .fbd File

Use the Potato/VMT tool to create a summary table and .fbd file that will be imported by HyperGraph 2D.

  1. From the Post ribbon, select the FBD Manager tool from the Plot group.
    Figure 3.


    The FBD Manager dialog opens.
  2. Select free-body sections.
  3. Select loadcases to consider.
  4. From the Options tab, select a working directory where the .fbd file will be written.
  5. For Resolve In, select Free Body System or Global System.
  6. Define the Tolerance.
  7. From the Export tab, select Free body forces/moments or Grid point forces/moments.
  8. Optional: If Grid point forces/moments is selected, select the relevant contributions to take into account.
  9. Click and select the summary table type.
  10. Export a .fbd file.
    1. Click and select Potato/VMT Plot GUI.
    2. In the Potato Plot - VMT Plot File Preparation dialog, select the source table.
    3. Click Create.
The summary table is created.