Tutorials: Frame 3D Design

In these tutorials, you learn how to model, analyze, and design a basic 3D steel structure.

This set of tutorials guides you through the complete process of Frame 3D design in approximately 55 minutes, but you can also work on each tutorial independently.

In these tutorials, you complete the following tasks:

1. Model a 3D frame (set preferences, section definition, definition of the structure elements, supports definition, creation a 3D frame by copying a 2D frame),
2. Load case definition (dead, wind, and live load cases, generation combination manually),
3. Structure analysis and results (linear static analysis, stress analysis for structure, display results graphically and tabular form),
4. Steel design (definition of code parameters, code group design with optimization, and code group verification).

Click here to start the first tutorial.

Topics in this Section

• Model a 3D Frame. In this tutorial, you learn how to model a basic 3D steel structure.
• Define Loads. In this tutorial, you learn how to define and apply load cases to a 3D structure.
• Run an Analysis and Explore Results. In this tutorial, you learn how to start the analysis process and how to display the results of this analysis.
• Steel Design. In this tutorial, you learn how to define code parameters and how to design groups of members.