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March 21, 2024 at 10:01 am
mjmiddle
Ansys Employee

You can use the nmisc values in APDL and write to a file (*cfopen, *vwrite), and use *get command to get node IDs of the elements I,J,K,L nodes.

*get,node_I,ELEM,element_ID,node,1
*get,node_J,ELEM,element_ID,node,2
*get,node_K,ELEM,element_ID,node,3
*get,node_L,ELEM,element_ID,node,4

But I'm not sure how to get the R and S directions for each element in global CS vectors. Elements can have curvature so these may even be different at each node when converted to a global CS vector.

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