How to plot circumferential/radial displacements

Altair Forum User
Altair Forum User
Altair Employee
edited October 2020 in Community Q&A

I'm doing response spectrum analysis using Optistruct of a cylindrical shell and am plotting results (displacements, a, v and stresses) along a path of the cylinder.

I'm able to extract displacements in x, y and z coordinates and know that my radial displacements will be close to the Z-ones, but I'd like to get extract the exact radial displacements as well as the circumferential ones.

How would I go about this? I already tried defining a cylindrical system in the analysis tab (system < create by node reference<cylindrical), but I'm unsure if I'm doing it right. 

 

Thanks in advance for the help!

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  • Altair Forum User
    Altair Forum User
    Altair Employee
    edited December 2014

    Just choose your cylindrical system: 'Resolved in' => 'User system' => System

    In my example, X is radial, Y is circumferential,...

     

    HTH,

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