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Hello!
I would like to use the Total Load at Point,
but I don't know how to create the point
Can You help me?
Thank you
Regard
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If you've used the right feature, you should have a table where you can enter X, Y, Z coordinates for a point (or points) relative to the selected coordinate system (make sure you've selected one!).
To be clear, you're not creating an "Offset Coordinate System", you're creating (a) point(s) by offsetting [from] a coordinate system.
You can use a point that you created in the model, or you can create a point within the Mechanica (Simulate) model that won't show up when you exit Simulate.
It's under Refine Model (in English at least), and the drop-down gives you different ways to create it - I most often use Offset Coordinate System.
Note that I believe it's important to create the point outside solid geometry, otherwise it stops being a point (with 6 degrees of freedom) and becomes a node of an element (with only 3 DOFs), and then you can't apply moments to it.
Hello!
Sorry Jonathan, but in this windowd what I must do after the creation of the Offset Coordinate System?
Thank you
If you've used the right feature, you should have a table where you can enter X, Y, Z coordinates for a point (or points) relative to the selected coordinate system (make sure you've selected one!).
To be clear, you're not creating an "Offset Coordinate System", you're creating (a) point(s) by offsetting [from] a coordinate system.