How to output Free Body Diagram or "free Body Plot" from MSC Apex 2022.4, static structural.

Hello,

Question is mostly summarized in the title.
I was following a NAFEMS discussion by Tony Abbey, and he mentioned that many modern FEM packages can output a free body plot, very useful to verify your own FBD and understanding of load transfer thru the part or assembly.

How can i output this from Apex's output file? or would I need to feed the output card to Patran or another program to get the output I desire?

Thank you in advance,

sorry in advance if this is a novice functionality that I have not yet encountered in the literature/documentation.

Best,

Eric

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Sandip Patil 3 months ago +1

Hello Eric, Firstly I would request you to use latest Apex release. You can use 'array sensors' in Apex, created across the section at equal interval and request grid point forces in output request.…

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0 Sandip Patil 3 months ago

Hello Eric,

Firstly I would request you to use latest Apex release.
You can use 'array sensors' in Apex, created across the section at equal interval and request grid point forces in output request.
Then you can able to plot these diagrams in the post by processing results for sensors.

Best Regards,

Sandip.
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0 Sandip Patil 3 months ago

Hello Eric,

Firstly I would request you to use latest Apex release.
You can use 'array sensors' in Apex, created across the section at equal interval and request grid point forces in output request.
Then you can able to plot these diagrams in the post by processing results for sensors.

Best Regards,

Sandip.
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0 Eric Dagenais-Kalus 3 months ago in reply to Sandip Patil

Thank you Sandip! I'll look into that and come back if I have issues.
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