Are stresses extracted from DPF global or local to the element orientation

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When using DPF to extract stresses are the values returned in the global system, or the local element system?

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  • Mike.Thompson
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    The stress operators have an input "bool_rotate_to_global" that is often default = True. This will be in the global system by default, but setting this to False will keep in the element orientation.

    `
    import mech_dpf
    import Ans.DataProcessing as dpf

    op = dpf.operators.result.stress() # operator instantiation
    op.inputs.bool_rotate_to_global.Connect(False) # optional
    `

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