Create your own cross-section

The module esa.07 General Cross-section or sen.05 General cross-section editor allows you to create your own cross-sections.

Go to Cross-sections library and choose 'New':

Then choose for General:

After adding the general cross-section, the Cross-section editor is opened:

In this cross-section editor a cross-section can be created.

Profiles can be loaded from the profile library or dwg-files can be loaded from a CAD program.

For more information, reference is made to following FAQ's: Import a cross-section from a dwg or dxf file and Import a thin-walled cross-section from a dwg or dxf file

Or it is possible to draw your own cross-section in this editor.

The materials these profiles consist of can also be chosen. For instance a steel tube filled with concrete can be created as cross-section.

After having created your own cross-section.

You have to push ‘Update’. By this the properties of the profile are calculated.

These profile properties are used by the program for calculation the internal forces and deformations.