Script to create a coordinate system at a node normal to surface

pwilk_archer

I'm looking to create a script which will create a csys at a selected node or at each of the selected nodes where the csys will have its Z direction normal to the underlying surface. Is this possible to script in ACT?

Erik Kostson

HI
Many useful posts to help you get started with this. See these 2 for instance as a start, but there are more if you search in the forum:

https://discuss.ansys.com/discussion/3516/how-to-export-node-normal-vectors-at-each-node-belonging-to-a-nodal-named-selection-into-a-csv

https://discuss.ansys.com/discussion/4432/how-can-we-define-a-coordinate-system-with-x-axis-point-along-a-direction-vector-between-two-nodes#latest

All the best

Erik

Landon Mitchell Kanner

Check out the discussion here and the functions in SolidMechanics.py