Product: Abaqus/CAE
Benefits: You can now display the free body resultant force and moment on a planar view cut in Abaqus/CAE. This enhancement enables you to investigate free body data in your model on an arbitrary plane. This process also allows you to display free body cuts with fewer mouse clicks and investigate free body data for output databases in which the NFORC output variable is not specified.
Description: The View Cut Manager dialog box now includes a free body column that enables you to display resultant force and moment vectors for the active view cut. Figure 14–1 shows a sample model of a landing gear assembly with the free body cut displayed for the active view cut.
You can display free body cuts along active planar view cuts through solid geometry, beam sections, and shell sections. Abaqus/CAE dynamically updates the free body cut as you reposition the view cut or animate the model. Abaqus/CAE also adjusts the content and appearance of the free body cut displayed on the active view cut when you customize the display of all free body cuts in the viewport using the Free Body Plot Options dialog box.You can customize a free body cut displayed on the active view cut using many of the options available for customizing free body cuts created in the Free Body toolset. Abaqus/CAE enables you to change the summation point of a free body cut displayed on a view cut and to align its vectors along a user-created coordinate system. In addition, you can compute the resultant force and moment for a free body cut based on the current display group or based on the entire model. Computing free body data based on a display group provides more flexibility; for example, this approach enables you to investigate the total resultant force and moment for four key points in your model if your current display group includes them and the display group intersects the active view cut.
Abaqus/CAE also includes two changes to the appearance of free body cuts:
The vectors in a free body cut are now displayed using thinner lines and smaller arrow heads, which enables you to display free body cuts while showing more of your model.
You can now display every vector for every free body cut in the current viewport using a single, uniform vector length. This enhancement enables you to see every free body cut easily when the free body cuts in your model represent a wide range of magnitudes for resultant force and moment.
Visualization module:
Tools
View CutManager: toggle check boxes under the 
column
OptionsView Cut: Free Body tabbed page
OptionsFree Body: Use constant-length arrows