Why must all the forces in the vertices be predetermined?


The program could in theory calculate all these forces for you, if enough information is provided such that the truss is solvable.   For a three member truss this would even be quite easy to do.  However, the long term goal of this program is to work for any number of member truss, and calculating every force present at all the verticies in a very large truss is beyond both the scope of this project and my programming ability.
 
 

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