🧮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.

📊 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.

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