SAP2000 SAP2000 Web Tutorial 1

Step 18: Reviewing Deformed Shapes
In this step we will demonstrate methods for reviewing the deformed shapes and displacements.
1. Click in the window labeled 3-D View to make sure it is active. Note when the window is
active, its title bar will be highlighted.
2. Click the Display Static Deformed Shape button , (or select Show Deformed Shape…
from the Display menu). The Deformed Shape dialog box appears.
3. In this dialog box:
• Select the EQX Load Case from the Load drop-down box.
• Select the Auto scaling option in the Scaling area.
• Check both the Wire Shadow and the Cubic curve boxes in the Options area.
• Click the OK button to display the deformed shape.
4. Click the Start Animation button , located in the status bar at the bottom
of the SAP2000 window, to animate the deformed shape.
5. Click the Stop Animation button , located in the status bar at the bottom of
the SAP2000 window, to stop the deformed shape animation.
6. Click the Right Arrow button , located in the status bar at the bottom of the screen, to
view the next deformed shape, based on the EQY static load.
Note: When viewing deformed shapes, the right and left arrow buttons, located in the
status bar at the bottom of the screen, provide an easy way to view the next (right
arrow), or previous (left arrow) deformed shape. You can easily cycle through all of
the load cases in this manner.
7. Right click on any joint in the 3-D view to bring up a dialog box with displacements for all
six degrees of freedom (UX, UY, UZ, RX, RY, RZ) for that joint. When done viewing these
displacements, right click another joint, or left click anywhere to close the dialog box.
8. From the Display menu select Set Output Table Mode… to display the Select Output
dialog box.
9. All of the load cases in the Select Output dialog box should be selected (higlighted). If they
are not, click on each one while holding down the Ctrl key to select them. Click the OK
button to accept this selection.
Note: If we wanted to, we could select only one, or a few load cases, instead of all of them.
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