Joint Reactions in Solution Combination
Joint Reactions in Solution Combination
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Folks, I'm using v2022R2 Mechanical. Is there a way to get joint reactions in Solution Combination? I don't see a RMB option for it.
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RE: Joint Reactions in Solution Combination
RE: Joint Reactions in Solution Combination
No, that will not work either. On Solution Combination, there is no RMB option to insert Command Objects unfortunately.
RE: Joint Reactions in Solution Combination
Are you looking for reaction forces at joints? This link might help. You need to use APDL commands in solution.
You need to insert command snippet before solving the model.
RE: Joint Reactions in Solution Combination
That's because "joint" is not something that is recognized by the apdl solver. It only knows nodes and elements. So any user defined results would have to be scoping towards one of these two items. I'm not sure if you can scope it directly to nodes within Ansys Mechanical, however the other option would be to extract the nodes into a list or assign the support nodes to variables to post-process within the apdl script. Another possibility (I can't recall specifically if this is possible or how to do it) is to use the named selections.
I believe if you have a named selection for the joints being supported, you can convert it to nodes, and that named selection gets transferred to APDL with a defined name which the software can use later on to reference when assigning loads or boundary conditions.
Maybe not within the solution combination part of the tree, but within the solution part of the tree you could define a command object and generate the plots and extract the data.
I don't have access to Ansys anymore in my current position, but a lot of this comes from memory, so there might be a few tweaks needed on my advice to find the correct workaround. The important thing to recognize is that anything that is available in Ansys classic (and was saved to the database after the solving), can be pulled from the database within Ansys Mechanical.