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Traffic lights for forces in bolts

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The visual check of the bolts will be even easier with this useful feature. The tensile force in each bolt is now represented with an arrow in different colors. These colors comply with the well-known “traffic light” principle (grey, green, orange, and red). The size of the arrow corresponds to the tensile force magnitude.

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