Location:        Results menu, Free Body Diagram sub-menu (to access the tool).

Tab Area (for the tool itself)

The FBD Forces utility extracts grid point force data (including forces and moments) for a user-defined element set, and is useful for doing breakout modeling within a sub-modeling scheme.

Results can be output to load collectors for graphical review, a text summary table, and/or a formatted Comma-Separated Values (.csv) file which can be loaded into traditional spreadsheet software packages.

The FBD Forces utility is broken down into three major sections, each of which corresponds with the process order of using the tool.

 

How Do I…

Select a results file

Select a sub-case

Select entities

Specify output options

 

 

See Also:

FBD Overview

Tab area