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[user deleted]

Hello, everyone!

For shell elements we have two sides: top and bottom, and for these sides we can get stresses:

[peteroznewman]

nThe place I always see this is when I insert a Contact definition. As soon as I pick a surface, it allows me to select Top and Bottom in the Details window. When you pick Top, that will have a solid blue or red color when viewing the surface from the Top side, and will be transparent when viewing the surface from the bottom side.n

[user deleted]

thanks a lot for your advice!nI didn't think, that Contact definition face side is the same that i asked about. And as i understand now, we can find out it faster (without Contacts): just select required face - if it is green, it means that is top side; and if we just see green edges of face - it means that it is bottom side. Like this:nn

[peteroznewman]

nThat makes sense, I didn't notice that before. Good to know!n