lattice analysis using pbeaml
Altair EmployeeHello,everyone.
I am a new user of the hyperworks. And I want to analysis a .iges file with many lines as you can see in the attachment. I want assign the lines with beam property.
The problem I get is that when I use 'line mesh' with pbeaml(beam section is a circle) , bar2, and auto settings, some lines can't be assign the property correctly, as you can see in the .png file(the picture). I guess the direction of the beamsection is not correctly set, because when I analysis it by optistruct, I get an error that the 6~8 field of cbeam is zero length. But I want if there any method can generate what I want correctly.
I want analysis a more complex lattice model(with lines in all direction), and before this I use this simple model as a practise.
Thank you for you time, and any advise will be appreciate.
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Answers
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Hi @donggua
That is because the vector definition has zero magnitude. This causes an orientation issue.
Can you change the orientation of the red lined vertical elements?
Go to BEAM property>> Orientation>> change to say Z axis and check,
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Hi Prakash Pagadala
Thank you for your help..
I have solve this problem by updating bar2 with all upadate options..
Thank you all the same..
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