🧭 How-to

One task each, on one screen - what you need, the steps, how to check it worked.

Each guide does one job. It assumes you know your way around a definition, and links to each component's own page for its inputs. New to Alpaca4d? Start with Learn.

📌 Supports and releases

• Hold a node with a support
• Release the end of a beam

💣 Loading

• Load elements by name
• Put wind on a building

🧊 Geometry

• Turn geometry into solid elements

📉 Analysis

• Solve large models on every core
• Find natural frequencies and mode shapes
• Find the load factor a model buckles at
• Run your own OpenSees script

🎲 Results

• Read the results of chosen elements and nodes
• Show results in colour, with a legend

✅ Design checks

• Check steel members to EN 1993-1-1

🎯 Optimisation

• Size steel beams automatically
• Find a structure with topology optimisation

🔄 Exchange

• Send a model to FEM-Design