Saving your work

After completing this step, here is how your work should look like shown in Figure 12 (without the background image for more clarity.)

Figure 12: Input data with loading plates, supports and loads

After working for a while, it would be a pity to have to start again, should something go wrong. Let us now save your work. Because you are working with a Java applet that runs within your web browser, it is not permitted to the applet (for good safety reasons) to save data to your local hard disk. All data will thus have to be saved on the i-concrete web server. Don’t worry, this will be very fast, but it requires, of course, that your computer be connected to the Internet for that operation.

Saving your work is very simple : as usual, press the button. A window appears, in which you can specify the name of your file. For this exercise, select the proposed name (iMesh) and replace it with Beam 1. File names may include spaces.