Spring orientation
Altair EmployeeHi,
Im working with some mass-spring systems, at the spring element creation panel i must select a DOF for the spring, but it seems that i can only orient the spring parallel to the global axes. How can i define the DOF of a spring oriented in a different direction that the global axes.
Thanks.
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Hi,
Try this:
-you must create a local coordonate system (Analisys->systems->create by axis orientation or by node referance)with the orientation that you want
-after you have the system press card edit->elems(choose spring and his type)->edit->press CID and select the local system that you created earlier
Hope this will help you!
Altair Employee
Hi,
Try this:
-you must create a local coordonate system (Analisys->systems->create by axis orientation or by node referance)with the orientation that you want
-after you have the system press card edit->elems(choose spring and his type)->edit->press CID and select the local system that you created earlier
Hope this will help you!
Thank you. I was looking for a similar question/answer.
For anyone searching:
In a Dyna deck, after making a series of beam elements (which are defined by 3 nodes - the from node, the to node, and the orientation node), the default in hypermesh seems to create the beam with a the orientation node coincident with the from node. This causes an error during simulation because the 'k node' lies on the element's X-axis (ie, it doesn't define an orientation at all).
I could get the simulation to run by manually changing the orientation node, but couldn't find how to get hypermesh to recognise this. The Analysis > System panel got it working for me.
Thanks,
Sven.
Hi,
please tell us, which solver and which element type.
Normaly you choose 2 nodes for spring x-direction.
Regards,
Mario