 | ShapeDesigner SaaS 2010 |
 | DISCLAIMER |
| Installation |
| System Requirements |
| Installing Shape Designer |
| Starting ShapeDesigner |
| Sign In ShapeDesigner |
| License Types |
| Running Interactive help |
| How to Contact MechaTools Technologies Support |
| ShapeDesigner Environment |
| Very Fast Step-by-Step Description |
| Step-By-Step Description |
| Starting ShapeDesigner™ |
| Creating a New Section Project |
| Setting the Project Preference |
| Creating Shapes |
| Creating General Shapes Using Standard Sections (AISC, CISC and British steel) |
| Creating General Shapes Using General Parametric Shape |
| Creating General Shapes Using Keyboard Input |
| Creating Custom Shapes Using the Mouse Pointer |
| Creating Custom Shapes from Files |
| Creating Custom Shapes by Function |
| Setting Material Properties |
| Setting Material Colors |
| Selecting the Reference Material |
| Selecting Shapes and Holes |
| Creating Holes or Cut-outs |
| Deleting Shapes and Holes |
| Moving Shapes (and Holes) with the Pointer (or arrow keys) |
| Creating Shapes within Shapes |
| Modifying Shapes with the Pointer (Moving Nodes) |
| Zooming |
| Using the Grid |
| Copying Shapes and Holes |
| Rotating Shapes |
| Scaling Shapes |
| Aligning the Centroid of a Shape on the X and Y axes |
| Moving Shapes Relative to Each Other |
| Merging Shapes |
| Deleting nodes |
| Modifying Shapes (Moving Points) Accurately |
| Generating Shapes |
| Refreshing the Drawing Area |
| Adding Labels to Shapes (Notes) |
| Dimensioning Shapes |
| Editing Shape Dimensions |
| Saving a Section Project File |
| Exporting Shapes to Other Applications |
| Setting the Applied Loads |
| Meshing and Computing Geometric Properties |
| Printing |
| Viewing Results |
| Description of the Calculated Properties |
| Axial Stress Distribution (bending moment Effects) |
| Multi-Project Script |
| Commands and Toolbars |
| Main Toolbar (main bar is rotate to –90 degrees) |
| Toolbox |
| Menus |
| File Menu |
| Edit Menu |
| Options Menu |
| View Menu |
| Shape Menu |
| Modify… |
| Move |
| Flip Horizontal (Flip about X Centroid) |
| Flip Vertical (Flip about Y Centroid) |
| Align To Centroid |
| Copy (generate shapes) or transform |
| Duplicate |
| Rotate |
| Rotate Right |
| Rotate Left |
| Scale |
| Translate |
| Add Hole |
| Analyse Menu |
| Help Menu |
| Computing |
| Viewing tabular results |
| Performing Computations on Different Coordinate Axes |
| Saving tabular results |
| Printing Tabular Results |
| Viewing Graphical Results |
| Printing Graphical Results |
| Computing for Composite Section Analysis |
| Section Optimization (general sections) |
| Custom Design (Design verification) |
| Components and Tips |
| General Geometric Shapes |
| Selecting a shape |
| Entering parameters |
| Specifying the coordinate system |
| Computing Properties |
| Creating User-Defined Shapes |
| Exporting the Shape |
| Printing |
| Standards Shapes |
| Selecting a shape |
| Finding an Optimal Shape |
| Exporting the Shape |
| Specifying the coordinate system |
| Transforming the shape to the new coordinate system |
| Printing |
| Shape Optimization |
| Symbolic Function |
| Results Quality |
| Utilities |
| Techniques and Conventions |
| Theoretical Background |
| Principal Stresses |
| Equivalent Von-Mises Stress |
| Equivalent Tresca Stress |
| Neutral Axis |
| Shape factor |
| Allowable-Stress Design |
| Composite Section |
| Shear stresses due to shear forces |
| Shear correction factors (Timoshenko and Reissner models) |
| Flexural-torsional constant |
| Stability |
| Shear in Built-Up Beams (Connectors calculation) |
| How to avoid torsion? |
| Report Problems or Errors |
| Examples: |
| Composite Section |
| Torsion of Thin-wall I section member |
| Shear Stresses |
| Shear Stresses and bimoment effect |
| Shear Flow in Bult Up Beams and Connectors Caculation |
| Moment capacity of a composite beam |
| Output report file (to printer or PDF file) |
| Input File |
| Output File |
| References |
| Appendex |