CoLateral
Visual Analyzer

Moment Frame Visual Analyzer

Visual moment and shear diagrams for portal and multi-bay moment frames under lateral and gravity loads.

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Moment Frame Visual Analyzer running in the CoLateral workspace
Moment Frame Visual Analyzer in the CoLateral desktop workspace.

What it does

Visual moment and shear diagram tool for portal and multi-bay moment frames. Illustrates moment distribution and deflected shape under lateral and gravity loads. Each section picker can hand off to its member design tool (Steel Beam Designer / Steel Column Designer): on the Project Canvas the designer drops in as a connected card (a new tab off-canvas), prefilled with the current section, and the member the engineer selects there is written back and applied to the matching picker here.

What it does not do

Simplified elastic portal method. Not a rigorous finite-element frame analysis. Results are approximate.

How to use it

Use for conceptual understanding and schematic load paths. Rigorous frame analysis must be performed in a dedicated structural analysis program.

Covers

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Use Moment Frame Visual Analyzer in your own projects

Every tool ships inside the CoLateral desktop workspace, so a result can stay attached to the project, the drawing, and the review trail it belongs to instead of ending up in a loose spreadsheet.

Outputs are design aids and stay in draft until a qualified engineer reviews and approves them.