member orientation

[pmtrevisan1]

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

 

[jayrod12]

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"

 

[pmtrevisan1]

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

 

[jayrod12]

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

 

[pmtrevisan1]

that is where i'm heading next.

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

cheers

pmt