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    After truss analysis, beam elements shown tapering

    They are rotating about the neutral axis. I will try constraining against that and I'll see how that affects the solution. Do you happen to know if it's purely a graphical issue or if it also affects the stress results?
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    After truss analysis, beam elements shown tapering

    Hey all, I'm working on a school project that involves me solving a truss system that would be suspended at one end from a fixed wall (think a cantilevered scaffold). There is a distributed load across the top and two point loads near the free end. The elements on the top and sides are beam...

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