To see detailed tip load results, select the Move & Select tool on the toolbar and then select a pole.
On the Properties tab in the sidebar, select the Structure tab. You will see something similar to this:
Overview Limit State Table
The table at the top of the Structure tab provides a quick overview of the Pass/Fail state of the pole or stay in each Environment:
To modify the environments (including colors displayed in the Resultant Forces Graph below) see Environments.
Resultant Forces Graph
This section presents the resultant forces in a polar plot. To simulate the effect of different wind directions on the pole, move your mouse cursor around the edges of the polar plot and observe the values in the Resultant Forces table(s) below change:
For more information about this graph, see Resultant Forces Graph.
Detailed Resultant Forces table(s)
This section provides detailed force calculation results, broken down to their components and angles, for each Environment that is ticked in the Overview table at the top of the Structure tab:
For more information about the content of these tables, see Detailed Forces Table.
Configure advanced features
Click the Configure option under the polar plot to reveal and modify settings for the diagram:
Display mode
Force-Direction: The points in the graph are a plot of force vectors, where the distance from the centre is the force magnitude, and the direction is the force direction (not wind direction).
Wind-Direction: The points in the graph are a plot of force vectors, where the distance from centre is magnitude, direction is Wind Source direction (not force direction).
Apply load factors
When checked, the magnitude of the forces plotted will be forces with the limit state multipliers applied, i.e. it will be a plot of Limit State Result.
When unchecked, the magnitude of the forces plotted will be base forces without the limit state multipliers applied, i.e. it will be a plot of Base Forces.
Calculation Settings: number of samples
The number of results to be calculated per 5 degree of around the pole.
For example, for a input of 2, a force result is evaluated every 2.5 degree increment around the pole. This will give a total of 144 force results evaluated at 2.5 degree increments around the pole.