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Status Needs review
Created by Guest
Created on Jan 29, 2026

A few formal comments

The "Individual Beam Label" command is very useful, I would just redesign it. Now it's like this: if I want, for example, a unit check of only some members, I have to first display all of them and then click out the ones I don't want, so that I can keep the ones I want. I don't know about other colleagues, but I would do it exactly the opposite:

After clicking on the "Individual Beam Label" command, the options for what I want to show would open - member number, cross-section, orientation. In the postprocessor, unit check, deformation, some internal force as well. I could select whatever I want from the menu (just something, or everything) and then click on the members where I want to see the given selection. It would definitely be faster (especially for larger structures) than clicking off what I don't want - like it is now.

I would really appreciate it if the "Utilities" block had the option to specify the axis system of the structure with the names of the individual axes (e.g. A, B, C / 1, 2, 3). If this option was specified, it would also appear in the pictures in "Reports". I also think it would be good if the text could be attached to the selected point or member so that when I change the view of the structure, the text would also move. For example, for the selected node at the anchor point, I always want to have the text "A/2" so that I know which one it is, even if I zoom in on the structure.

I would also like it if, after entering "Node to Node Distance", I could move this dimension to the selected position so that it does not overlap with other information such as "Beam Number" or "Sections".

The rotation icons show and inform the opposite of how the structure actually rotates, i.e. if the arrow in the icon shows rotation to the right and the text also says "Rotate right", the structure rotates to the left. I would expect the direction of the arrow in the icon and the rotation of the structure to be the same.