User Guide

Tutorial 1 - Modeling
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Boundary Conditions
We will now add boundary conditions at the base of the columns.
Click on the Boundary Conditions button on the Drawing toolbar.
You will be presented with the following dialog:
Boundary conditions define how the model is constrained. All models must be
attached to some external point or points of support. Boundary conditions are
applied to particular joints. There are six degrees of freedom for each joint so
there are six parameters provided, one for each direction.