Easy one - does anybody other than students still use Cremona-Maxwell diagrams for 2d truss analysis?

[GregLocock]

as title

Here's a nice article on them https://www.acsa-arch.org/proceedings/Annual Meeting Proceedings/ACSA.AM.84/ACSA.AM.84.1.pdf

 

[lexpatrie]

Reminds me of force polygons which I have seen on drawings but I don't remember where, or when.

 

[HTURKAK]

The use of Cremona - Maxwell diagrams was a standard practice at Eastern Europe countries before 90's but only for 2D truss analysis. The old western books which i have, implies this method was used before 60's.
An old book cover ( notice the year 1888 by Prof CULMANN )

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[GregLocock]

It doesn't really work for 3d it has no way of understanding two superimposed beams in a given view on a plane.

 

[dik]

I haven't done them for a couple of years... but use Autocad and not parallel rule and triangles.