General Mechanical

General Mechanical

Beam Element Orientation

    • Nicholas Watson
      Subscriber

      I have created a model using line bodies to create beams with a user defined cross section. All of my beams are fully constrained and oriented properly in design modeller, but when meshing the model, All of the beams change orinetation, and some do what is shown below, where the individual elements within the beam change orientation in respect to each other. I get the error message saying:

      "The orientation node of element 291067 is co-linear with the first two nodes. "

       

       

      When i check which elements the errors are referring to, they lead me to the elements shown in the pic.

       

       

    • Ashish Khemka
      Ansys Employee

      Hi Nicholas,

       

      Please see if the following link helps:

       

      Error message: Element orientation (ansys.com)

       

      Regards,

      Ashish Khemka

    • ksyksy miokia
      Subscriber

      I’m getting the same error message as you LOL.

      tunnel rush

       

       

      • Nicholas Watson
        Subscriber

        I just updated my ansys, and when i cleared mesh and regenerated it was fixed...

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