Reflecting Parts with material orientation assigned (Abaqus)

Altair Forum User

Hello

A couple of questions on *ORIENTATION for Abaqus

I am using HM 10.0

I have a Solid mesh with *ORIENTATION defined.

Now I want to reflect the Elements

- I want to know if there is any way to reflect the part and automatically also reflect and reorient the Systems (*ORIENTATIONS) in one step.

Are the following assumptions Correct?

- I have tried and it does not appear that reflecting the elements will automatically reflect the systems.

(It makes sense not to reflect systems)

- It appears that i will have to recreate the system(*ORIENTATION) on the reflected side and reassign again.

Just wanted to check with the experts is there are any macros or any other suggestions

Any help will be appreciated

Regards

Sanjay

Altair Forum User

Sanjay

The systems don't reflect because this would change your right-handed coordinate system into a left-handed one, which HM does not support (neither do most solvers). You will have to create your own 'reflected' system by picking nodes, etc, in the new locations. I've uploaded a macro that speeds some of this up by allowing you to pick a plane and generating a new system oriented similarly to the original (movesys.tcl). You could probably add the reflection of components and the assignment of the orientation to this.

Eric