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Erik Kostson
Ansys Employee

 

Hi

You are using a 3D solid body, that will be meshed with 3D elemets (solid185) that have 3 dof (at each node), and not 6.

See the help manual for more info on solid185 elements that are used when you set mesh to linear in modal analysis.

All the best

Erik

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