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Erik Kostson
Ansys Employee

Beam4 is a beam (line element), so you can not use it on 3D solid bodies .

You need to define a line body.

See here how to define such a body (line) and how to analyse beams.

All the best

Erik

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Ef5piegVh4

 

Erik