{"id":200343,"date":"2021-12-16T00:28:50","date_gmt":"2021-12-16T00:28:50","guid":{"rendered":"\/forum\/forums\/reply\/200343\/"},"modified":"2021-12-16T00:30:32","modified_gmt":"2021-12-16T00:30:32","slug":"200343","status":"publish","type":"reply","link":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/forums\/reply\/200343\/","title":{"rendered":"Reply To: Should the stresses in this stiffener actually exist?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In SpaceClaim, you create cross-sections on the Prepare tab using a library of available shapes. Then you convert a sketch line into a Beam element, assigning it the currently selected cross-section.  When you open Mechanical and mesh those beams, you can display the cross-section.  The default assignment is to put the centroid of the cross-section on the node. This is usually what you want, but sometimes it&#8217;s not.<br \/>\nThe image below shows two cross-sections assigned to two colinear lines. The default puts the centroid on the node, shown in green, but in this case, this is not desirable.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/forum\/wp-content\/uploads\/forum-uploads\/932\/SL17ZNB2P7RA.png\" width=\"719\" height=\"492\" \/>Select the Beam(T) under the Geometry branch and in the Details window, change the Offset from Centroid to Origin.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/forum\/wp-content\/uploads\/forum-uploads\/316\/3UI2HHT3AQMI.png\" width=\"397\" height=\"534\" \/>Now the T cross-section aligns with the Rectangle cross-section.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/forum\/wp-content\/uploads\/forum-uploads\/943\/ITI743NIGDZ2.png\" width=\"710\" height=\"476\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-200343","reply","type-reply","status-publish","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/replies\/200343","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/replies"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/reply"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/replies\/200343\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}