Reflecting Parts with material orientation assigned (Abaqus)
Altair EmployeeHello
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
Answers
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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
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