ShapeDesigner SaaS 2010 |
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Trademarks |
Installation |
System Requirements |
Installing Shape Designer |
Starting ShapeDesigner |
Sign In ShapeDesigner |
License Types |
Running Interactive help |
How to Contact MechaTools Technologies Support |
ShapeDesigner Environment |
Very Fast Step-by-Step Description |
Start ShapeDesigner™ |
Step-By-Step Description |
Starting ShapeDesigner™ |
Creating a New Section Project |
Setting the Project Preference |
Creating Shapes |
Creating General Shapes Using Standard Sections (AISC, CISC and British steel) |
Creating General Shapes Using General Parametric Shape |
Creating General Shapes Using Keyboard Input |
Creating Custom Shapes Using the Mouse Pointer |
Creating Custom Shapes from Files |
Creating Custom Shapes by Function |
Setting Material Properties |
Setting Material Colors |
Selecting the Reference Material |
Selecting Shapes and Holes |
Creating Holes or Cut-outs |
Deleting Shapes and Holes |
Moving Shapes (and Holes) with the Pointer (or arrow keys) |
Creating Shapes within Shapes |
Modifying Shapes with the Pointer (Moving Nodes) |
Zooming |
Using the Grid |
Copying Shapes and Holes |
Rotating Shapes |
Scaling Shapes |
Aligning the Centroid of a Shape on the X and Y axes |
Moving Shapes Relative to Each Other |
Merging Shapes |
Deleting nodes |
Modifying Shapes (Moving Points) Accurately |
Generating Shapes |
Refreshing the Drawing Area |
Adding Labels to Shapes (Notes) |
Dimensioning Shapes |
Editing Shape Dimensions |
Saving a Section Project File |
Exporting Shapes to Other Applications |
Setting the Applied Loads |
Meshing and Computing Geometric Properties |
Printing |
Viewing Results |
Description of the Calculated Properties |
Axial Stress Distribution (bending moment Effects) |
Multi-Project Script |
The Multi-Project Script Window Mode |
Multi-Project Script - Output |
Commands and Toolbars |
Main Toolbar (main bar is rotate to –90 degrees) |
Toolbox |
Menus |
File Menu |
New (Ctrl + N) |
Open (Ctrl + O) |
Save (Ctrl + S) |
Save As |
Import/Export |
Exit |
Edit Menu |
Undo |
Redo |
Cut (Ctrl X) |
Copy (Ctrl C) |
Paste (Ctrl V) |
Delete (Del) |
Options Menu |
Preferences… |
Change Bounding Box |
Change Units… |
View Menu |
Points Ids |
Shapes Ids |
Axes |
Grid |
Units... |
Zoom |
View Dimensions |
Add Dimension |
Show Shapes Labels |
Shape Menu |
Modify… |
Move |
Flip Horizontal (Flip about X Centroid) |
Flip Vertical (Flip about Y Centroid) |
Align To Centroid |
Copy (generate shapes) or transform |
Duplicate |
Rotate |
Rotate Right |
Rotate Left |
Scale |
Translate |
Add Hole |
Analyse Menu |
Mesh and Computing… F5 |
Optimize Section… |
View Extruded Section… |
Help Menu |
View My Account… |
Help Menu |
About Shape Designer |
Computing |
Viewing tabular results |
Performing Computations on Different Coordinate Axes |
Saving tabular results |
Printing Tabular Results |
Viewing Graphical Results |
Printing Graphical Results |
Computing for Composite Section Analysis |
Section Optimization (general sections) |
Example of section to be optimized: |
Results mode in the Optimization Section Window: |
Custom Design (Design verification) |
Adding a category from the Beam analysis library: |
Example of member torsion |
Example of beam bending. |
Examples of plotting solution in Custom Design Component |
Examples of plotting parametric function solution in Custom Design Component |
How to add you own Design file (equations file): |
Components and Tips |
General Geometric Shapes |
Selecting a shape |
Entering parameters |
Specifying the coordinate system |
Computing Properties |
Creating User-Defined Shapes |
Exporting the Shape |
Printing |
Standards Shapes |
Selecting a shape |
Finding an Optimal Shape |
Exporting the Shape |
Specifying the coordinate system |
Transforming the shape to the new coordinate system |
Printing |
Shape Optimization |
Symbolic Function |
Results Quality |
Utilities |
Units converter |
Techniques and Conventions |
Theoretical Background |
Principal Stresses |
Equivalent Von-Mises Stress |
Equivalent Tresca Stress |
Neutral Axis |
Shape factor |
Allowable-Stress Design |
Composite Section |
Shear stresses due to shear forces |
Shear correction factors (Timoshenko and Reissner models) |
Flexural-torsional constant |
Stability |
Shear in Built-Up Beams (Connectors calculation) |
How to avoid torsion? |
Report Problems or Errors |
Examples: |
Composite Section |
Torsion of Thin-wall I section member |
Shear Stresses |
Rectangular section |
Circular section |
Rectangular section with holes |
Composite rectangular section |
Shear Stresses and bimoment effect |
I section |
Shear Flow in Bult Up Beams and Connectors Caculation |
Moment capacity of a composite beam |
Output report file (to printer or PDF file) |
Input File |
Output File |
References |
Appendex |
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