StressTheGame
New member
- Jul 16, 2003
- 19
Hi!
I have been looking for a simple software that would allow me to calculate Section Properties (Ix, Ixy, Area, etc) for a wide variety of cross sections.
At Boeing we had a program called Section Analysis which was very good for stress analysts. You could choose from "primitive building blocks" (i.e., rectangles, circles, semi-circles, radii segments, angles, etc.) and join them together to compute their total cross sectional properties.
The best one I've seen (based upon what I'm looking for) is MDSolids; however, it is very limited in the number of sections one can analyze.
I've tried others such as: Cbeam200, Atlas, Framework, beamby22, and points.
AutoCAD and other cad programs could do this for me but I'm after a simple tool that I could use to quickly solve in-service – 1-off – problems.
Any suggestions?
I have been looking for a simple software that would allow me to calculate Section Properties (Ix, Ixy, Area, etc) for a wide variety of cross sections.
At Boeing we had a program called Section Analysis which was very good for stress analysts. You could choose from "primitive building blocks" (i.e., rectangles, circles, semi-circles, radii segments, angles, etc.) and join them together to compute their total cross sectional properties.
The best one I've seen (based upon what I'm looking for) is MDSolids; however, it is very limited in the number of sections one can analyze.
I've tried others such as: Cbeam200, Atlas, Framework, beamby22, and points.
AutoCAD and other cad programs could do this for me but I'm after a simple tool that I could use to quickly solve in-service – 1-off – problems.
Any suggestions?