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Dr.Frame2D 3.0 adds a number of significant modeling features. See the update docs or browse the User Docs for more details. Dr.Frame incorporates a wide range of modeling features and capabilities: Basic Modeling Features - Direct manipulation of the basic modeling components
- Snap to background grid
- Load set/combination manager
- Easily accessed viewing control buttons and tools
- Editable element cross section database that includes standard cross sections
- SI and English units
- Customizable number formatting
- Automatic frame generation
- Real time element length incrementation
- Quick zooming capabilities
- Printing of images
- Multiple undo/redo of modeling actions
Analysis Capabilities - Linear static analysis
- Second-order analysis with load-dependent EI
- Plastic hinges
Direct Manipulation Modeling Components - Load types include: point loads, distributed loads, moments
- Support types include: pinned, fixed, pinned roller, translational and rotational springs
- Internal, sprung hinges
- Members: pinned ended (trusses) and framed ended (beams) and hybrid.
- Joints
Feedback Mechanisms -- All updated in real time! - Displacements superposed on main view of structure
- Moment and shear diagrams in auxiliary view -- raw values or normalized to member capacities
- Automatic labeling of diagram maxima and minima
- Labels to indicate numerical diagram values, member lengths, Joint IDs, force values
- Shear and moment diagram envelopes
- Axial force coloring indicator
- Joint and Element freebody diagrams
- Arbitrary and substructure free-body diagrams via X-ray glasses tool
- Multiple vector decomposition options
- Visualization of reactions
- Scaling of force representations
- Center of moment tool
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