nodal reaction forces 1

[mel08]

Is there a quick way to determine the total or sum of all the nodal reaction forces?
I tried to use etable to list them all and then just ssum, but I couldn't work it with etable.....
thanks.

 

[Drej]

In /post1, read in your results and just issue the command "prrsol". This will give you the total in each direction (plus the rotationals if you have any nodes constrained as such).


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[mel08]

hi thanks,
I'm running my analysis in batch mode and need to get the sum during the run between load steps, so I couldn't use prrsol.
But I have worked out how to do this.
Thank you for your help!!