Joint in a beam

Adding an internal hinge in the graphical screen is very easy.

Choose for the following image in the menu bar..

In these modus you can add multiple internal hinges by use of the left mouse button. By placing the node the coordinates are shown in the right bottom. This is shown in the image below.

When you add an internal hinge, a new node in the beam is generated, and the regarding beam is automatically separated into two beams with a hinge connection. Possible beam loads will also be equally distributed or separated.

In this way you can easily design a gerber beam.

Look at the demo.

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