ShapeBuilder will help you quickly and accurately determine the geometric and structural section properties of complex built-up or cut-down cross-sections. ShapeBuilder also performs a finite element analysis to determine the torsion properties and the shear stresses for any arbitrary cross-section. In addition to calculating a variety of section properties (area, moment of inertia, radius of gyration, section modulus, torsion constant, etc.), loads can be applied to the cross-section to determine the normal stresses and shear stresses. Shapes created in ShapeBuilder can be exported to the IES Shape Database for use in other IES applications, such as VisualAnalysis.
