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    Non Planar Plate Elements

    The plate elements are very slightly out of plane, but not anywhere near the tolerance stated in the manual. There are other near vertical panels in this model which don't throw the error. Yeah, please have a look in the latest version. We should probably get up to...
  2. JosefTaylor

    Non Planar Plate Elements

    Thanks Josh, I'm using 8.1.2 About it failing only with projected loads, that's exactly what I thought -- it should be checking planarity only when it is writing stiffness. Could there be a similar check when calculating load projections which has a slightly different tolerance? Perhaps...
  3. JosefTaylor

    Non Planar Plate Elements

    Hi, I'm getting an error 2034 "Plate may be very poorly shaped", which the help tells me is probably because my quad is not planar. The plates represent corner supported glass panes which we are only using for load distribution (making use of the plate corner releases), so they're a single...
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