{"id":207988,"date":"2022-03-19T13:11:04","date_gmt":"2022-03-19T13:11:04","guid":{"rendered":"\/forum\/forums\/reply\/207988\/"},"modified":"2022-03-19T13:24:01","modified_gmt":"2022-03-19T13:24:01","slug":"207988","status":"publish","type":"reply","link":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/forums\/reply\/207988\/","title":{"rendered":"Reply To: Static equilibrium of rigid body system."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I know how to make your model in NASTRAN. The image below shows the links connected with springs, with a downward load shown with the green arrow. After the static equilibrium is solved, the links are deflected downward.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/forum\/wp-content\/uploads\/forum-uploads\/202\/APVP6LG1JQYZ.png\" width=\"524\" height=\"395\" \/>I exported ANSYS commands for this model in the attached text file.<br \/>\nIf you start Mechanical APDL, and read in this file, you will have the solved model, but not in Workbench.  I&#8217;m not an expert at Mechanical APDL, but I can see the deformed shape!  When plotting deformation results, there is the real deformation, which might be small, then there is a viewing scale factor, which can make the deformation look larger than it really is, but makes it easier to see how it is deforming.  The plot above has a larger viewing scale factor.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/forum\/wp-content\/uploads\/forum-uploads\/157\/GYOT42RPE7B8.png\" width=\"984\" height=\"681\" \/>Good luck!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-207988","reply","type-reply","status-publish","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/replies\/207988","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\/207988\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}