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

peteroznewman
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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?

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