Documentation

The members themselves — add, delete, renumber, and query incidences between two nodes. Loads on members live in Load › Member Loads; section and material in Section & Material.

Links each member to a cross-section (from Section/Property) and a material (from Material), plus its beta angle — what the member is made of, not its shape in space.

Member behavior modifiers — end releases, offsets, and truss / tension-only / compression-only / cable specs. Changes how a member acts, not its geometry.

Fireproofing material and thickness on members — adds to self-weight for fire-rated assemblies; doesn’t change analytical stiffness.

User-defined attributes and metadata attached to members for tagging and downstream workflows.

Per-member results after analysis — end forces, moments, displacements, and section stresses. Read-only.

Member labels, highlighting, and annotation in the viewport. Visual only.

The plate/shell elements — add, delete, and query three- and four-node plate incidences. Thickness comes from Thickness & Specifications; pressures live in Plate › Loads.

Plate thickness, material, and behavior specs (plane-stress, in-plane/bending releases) for shell elements.

Pressure and hydrostatic loads on plates — this is where loads on Plate elements are defined.

User-defined attributes and metadata attached to plate elements.

Per-plate results after analysis — center and corner stresses, moments, and shears. Read-only.

Cross-sections from built-in country steel tables (AISC and others). Applied to members in Member › Section & Material.

User-Provided Table sections — custom cross-sections defined in an external table and referenced by members.

Prismatic/general sections defined by raw properties (area, Iy, Iz, J…) rather than a catalog shape.

Query section properties — area, moments of inertia, dimensions — for any assigned or table section.

Primary load cases — the containers every applied load belongs to. Create and query cases before adding nodal, member, or area loads.

Loads and enforced displacements applied at nodes — joint loads/moments and support settlements. This is where loads on nodes are defined.

Loads on members — uniform, concentrated, trapezoidal, and temperature. This is where loads on Member elements are defined.

Seismic, wind, snow, and other definition-based loads, plus self-weight and floor/area loads.

The active load list — which cases and combinations are active for the next command or query.

Factored combinations (e.g. 1.2D + 1.6L) and min/max envelopes of primary cases, used for design.