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member orientation

member orientation

member orientation

(OP)
weird issue that has be baffled. i am learning to use RISA 3d and following through the tutorials, i can not seem to get a member rotated all the parameters seems to be correct.

all i can think of is that regardless of what orientation i tell the software to use on the orientation / rotate options section of the DRAW MEMBERS window, the global parameters seem to supersede this and always align the members with the z axis parallel to the global xz plane.

what am i doing wrong?

cheers
pmt

RE: member orientation

Might be a real dumb question, but are you hitting apply after changing the rotation amount? I'm assuming the majority of your rotations are 90 degrees to have the member "on flat"

RE: member orientation

(OP)
correct, 90 degree rotation

yes apply was hit.

tried changing global orientation, and though that worked, it changed the orientation to all the members.

thanks for the help.

pmt

RE: member orientation

Have you read the help section regarding K joints and member rotation as the global parameters - member default orientation warned you to?

RE: member orientation

(OP)
that is where i'm heading next.

thought it would a simple click to get things oriented correctly.

cheers

pmt

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