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dlooman
Ansys Employee

If you only have 1 or 2 joints you could use the command fsum to get the joint forces in global coordinates.  The procedure would be to create a named selection for one of the faces the joint is scoped to and then issue the commands below:

cmsel,s,face_name

fsum 

allsel

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