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[LucaMartorelli]

Dear all,
I am currently working on a CFD based response surface optimization for a radial turbine blade. I am also implementing a structural transformation in my optimization framework and I would like to set an overhanging constraint on my initial geometry. Therefore, I need to define the minimum inclination angle between a 3D surface and the xy horizontal plane.
Since I've seen ansys workbench (or at least DesignModeler (Blade editor) and static structural) does not allow that directly, I thought that defining an element orientation and then solving the static structural for the Elemental Euler YZ angle might do the trick.
To be more specific, I have defined an element orientation of my blade body using as surface guide the blade surface to define the surface the Z axis is normal to. Moreover, I need to define a edge guid, which in this case I would like to be the general coordinate system X axis to be able to retrieve from the solution the correct surface inclination. However, the element orientation details only allow me to select an edge on the surface, that being highly 3D can never be the actual x vector direction. Moreover, the elemental euler angle is calculated on the deformed geometry, whilst I would like it to be on the initial geometry.
Does someone know if my approach makes sense and if you know how to select the x axis as edge guide?
Does someone know how I can apply the elemental angle resulting contour on the initial geometry rather than the deformed one?I would like to attach some pictures but the forum crashes if I try to publish this post with pictures in it. If it gets resolved soon I will attach them in comment.
Thank you for your time and help.Kind Regards,
Luca