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

Hello all,

 

I am relatively new to hypermesh and I have some difficulties to make my model run.

My model is a solid model of an anisotropic material. I have conciously checked the material orientation of the different components thanks to a TCL script that I've been given and all the elements are oriented how they should be.

However, when defining the material property, I don't see what I am supposed to do. I have selected the Orientation, UseOrientationId option, which set the value to 0. However, when running the model, it crashes because of this error:

***ERROR: PARAMETER ORIENTAT MUST HAVE A VALUE
 LINE IMAGE: *SOLID SECTION, ELSET=HMprop_Resin, ORIENTATION = ,
             MATERIAL=Central adhesive
  *SOLID SECTION, ELSET=HMprop_Resin, ORIENTATION = , MATERIAL=Central adhesive

So where should I set that the orientation is the mesh orientation?

Thanks in advance,

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  • Altair Forum User
    Altair Forum User
    Altair Employee
    edited June 2014

    A bit more of information after a day passed working on the model:

    What I would like to do is to define the element coordinate systems, which are correct, as coordinate systems for the anisotropic property.

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