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Press F3, you’ll see the options for turning on/off output stations.
For APIs, see https://www.nextfem.it/api/html/M_NextFEMapi_API_getBeamForce.htmHello,
thanks for your interest in NextFEM Designer!
As per Finite Element Method, this is not possible – mesh has to be consistent, which means that if you don’t mesh the line element, you’ll have shells only attached to corners.
You always see the results for the entire beam! Maybe you meant about checking – to consider the beams as unique during verifications, use members (Assign / Members).Shell results in OpenSees are extrapolated from GPs to nodes, internally in Designer.
There’s no discrepancies in the results obtained – I kindly ask to use less-alarming topic titles.
We’ll have a look on out-of-plane moments sign.EDIT: consider also that shell formulations may differ.
Thanks for the tests, we extended the support in the patch released some minutes ago.
For usage with OpenSees, remember that equivalent point loads works only with Euler-Bernulli beams (deselected the proper option prior to export) and for fiber elements. Point load inside beams are not supported in OS by elastic Timoshenko beams.
We implemented a new method to distribute floor load to beams based on quadrilateral 2-way distribution (classic tributary area method). This will produce your NU distribution.
It will be published in the next patch.This is applied for updates and support only. Activation will only be checked yearly, that means that there are automatic controls – it does not mean license will expire!
thanks for the hand-calculation comparison. You applied a “quadPlane” load, that distributes the forces “by centroid”, hence it will not generate trapezoidal loads. That’s why you see these peak loads, that are correct in a “centroid”-like distribution (in your hand calculation, Lx1=0).
If by “reversed” you mean that you have to press “Reverse” once the loading plane has been drawn, this happen because you have “Normal to the plane” option active: this means that, for vertical loading, you have to draw the plane in counterclockwise way in order to have it directed on -Z.
If this is not the case, please clarify what you mean for “reversed”.Yes, it seems that you left the loadcases in the model set for LC1 also for non-linear cases. In Analysis settings, click on LC1, remove PDelta effects check and delete all the case you find in TH loadcases. Then re-enable Pdelta effects and store the changes.
There’ll automatic controls in future, thanks for reporting us.