The Ansys Innovation Space website recently experienced a database corruption issue. While service has been restored there appears to have been some data loss from November 13. We are still investigating and apologize for any issues our users may have as a result.

Ansys Learning Forum › Forums › Discuss Simulation › General Mechanical › Simulating a movement in Ansys Mechanical › Reply To: Simulating a movement in Ansys Mechanical

November 12, 2024 at 10:35 am
peteroznewman
Subscriber

Each point along the centerline has an initial position, p(0).  You have the position at each time step, p(t).  You need the deformation, so subtract the initial position from current position to get d(t) = p(t) - p(0).

It's not sufficient to simply move the points using the deformation value at each time step, you also need the rotation of each point from the initial position.  You need to calculate that from the position data if that is not already known. Can you do that?

Â