🧮4. Run a Structural Analysis

With your tower geometry, ancillaries, and site-specific conditions in place, you're now ready to run a full structural analysis in Shapemaker — fully aligned with Eurocode requirements.

🎥 Watch the video: Run a Structural Analysis in Shapemaker

📍 What You’ll Learn

• How to run an analysis

• What Shapemaker calculates in the background

• How to read results: utilization, governing load combinations, deformation

• How to export and review full analysis reports

▶️ How to Run the Analysis

1. Go to your structure

2. Press the Run Analysis button

   This will automatically start the complete Eurocode-based calculation process

3. Wait a few seconds. The analysis is typically completed very quickly.

🔧 What Shapemaker Calculates

Behind the scenes, Shapemaker just

• Considered all load cases and load combos as required by the Eurocode

• Ran a full FEA analysis (linear or non-linear, depending on the settings & tower type) for all cases

• Calculated capacities for tension & compression for all members

• Capacity checks for members, connections & foundations

• Generated a full report - enough to sign off on a project.

How can Shapemaker perform a full static analysis so quickly?

Two intrinsic features of Shapemaker allows us to analyse structures in an unprecedented speed.

First, we're focusing on telecom structures, and have optimised our solution to that.

Secondly, we're cloud based - allowing us to scale our infrastructure based on the analysis request. We most likely analysed more than 50 FEA load cases in parallel to calculate all the internal forces for your analysis!

📊 Interpreting the Results

Once the analysis in complete, you'll see the newest results by going to the Results tab.

A full report is also automatically generated.