How to position patch to 1D element perpendicular using script?

Jouher_20929
Jouher_20929 Altair Community Member
edited October 2020 in Community Q&A

I have a 1D beam with nodes N1 and N2 known. Need to position the rigid patch (blue elements) perpendicular to D element as shown in image 2. The free node of rigid element inside the rigid patch will get equivalence to node N2 of beam.

 

Kindly help in building the logic.

@tinh

 

 

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