User Guide

Tutorial 2 - Modifying
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Loads
The next three items, , are provided to help you view the
loads. We will come back to this once we have defined our loads.
Toggling Items On and Off
The remaining buttons are toggles and will control information in the new view.
Click to toggle model rendering. We’ll cover rendering later on.
Click to toggle the joint labels.
Click to toggle the member labels.
Click to toggle the boundaries.
Click to toggle the global axes orientation on and off in the view.
Click to toggle the I-J end flags.
Press Ctrl-F4 to close the view we created by cloning and return to the original
view.
Plot Options
Now click the first button on the Window Toolbar; .
This dialog contains the various options you have for controlling what is
displayed on the plot. Related options are grouped together on a page marked by
the tabs across the top.
Choose the Members tab if it is not selected. Click on the down arrow next to the
lists to view the options they give you.
Each of these member options has a subgroup of buttons indented beneath it.
None of the options in the subgroups will be shown unless the main option
controlling that sub-group is on. For example, the “Rigid Offsets” option
indicates whether you want each member's offset displayed. If you click this
button on, the offsets won't be shown unless the “Wireframe” option is also
chosen.
Options that are drawn in gray can’t be selected. Here, for example, the results
review keys are all shown as inactive (gray) because the model has not been
solved.
The buttons at the bottom may be clicked at any time and will accept or cancel all
of the choices you have made on all of the pages. The difference between the OK
and the Apply buttons is that clicking Apply will leave the dialog open after
applying the choices you have made.