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Re: pic: Beam Bending Example

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Originally Posted by Lowfategg View Post
Yup its inventor. I tried to do this with my beams but I could not get the results right. No matter how little force I applied it looked like a train hit the beam. I guess I did something wrong.
Inventor exaggerates the deformation considerably, as you're meant to use the scale displayed on screen to determine the appropriate values rather than a visual representation.
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