Reflecting Parts with material orientation assigned (Abaqus)

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

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

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  • Altair Forum User
    Altair Forum User
    Altair Employee
    edited August 2011

    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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