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Ansys Learning Forum Forums Installation and Licensing Ansys Products How to get the rotations of each node in a plate modeled through solid elements? Reply To: How to get the rotations of each node in a plate modeled through solid elements?

dlooman
Ansys Employee

The remote point would be a new node at the same location as the node you were trying to obtain the rotation of.  It does probably require you to imprint a face in the geometry at the location of interest, so may not be practical in your case.  If the locations of interest are on the surface you could mesh the surface with very thin shell elements, which do have rotational dof.