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September 12, 2024 at 1:03 pm
georg.gruber
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Hello, I'm back :-) Thanks for the APDL lines, I had to add one line in the beginning. Here my entire (working) snippet:

SET, last, last      ! Not working without this line
cmsel,s,FACE         ! FACE is a named selection for the top flange face
esln                 ! It doesn't make any difference If I add or uncomment this line
spoint,,-350,330,19  ! x,y,z are the coordinates of the centroid 
fsum                 ! Compare with Mechanical
allsel

In the logs I get the result for fsum via APDL, at least exactly the same results as given by the Reaction Moments inside Mechanical. So Mechanical is apparently using the lines above. But, I still don't know where my problem is :-(