User Guide

Tutorial 4 – Solving & Results
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Click Solve.
RISA-3D reports the solution steps as they occur. When the solution is complete,
you are presented with the Joint Reactions spreadsheet. You will notice that the
reactions are summed at the bottom of the spreadsheet. The center of gravity of
the vertical loads is reported in the last row. The Results toolbar is also opened
for access to other results. You may view results in the spreadsheets, plotted on
the model in the view, or in detail for each member. We will cover these three
options next.
Viewing and Sorting Results Spreadsheets
You may access the result spreadsheets from the Results menu or from the
Results Toolbar which is placed on the right side after the solution is performed.
Let's use the toolbar to quickly review the results. You may use the Topic Help
and Help buttons for a more detailed explanation of the results. You
may also look to the status bar for an explanation of the active cell. Take a
moment to look over each spreadsheet. Use the scroll bars to view information
not displayed in the window.
To review the results, you can page up and down or scroll up and down a line at a
time. [Home] and [End] take you to the top and bottom of the results. You can
use the Find feature to locate specific results and the Sort feature to sort the
results. The Exclude feature allows you to hide results that are not of interest.
For now just note what results are available, in the next section we’ll discuss how
to quickly manipulate them.
Select
from the Results Toolbar to review these results.
Now select
to view the forces which are listed for 7 locations on
each member. This is because we specified 7 sections back on the Global
settings.
Remember you can sort the spreadsheets. We will use the Sort feature to sort the
strong axis moment results.