{"id":393745,"date":"2024-11-12T10:35:28","date_gmt":"2024-11-12T10:35:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/forums\/reply\/393745\/"},"modified":"2024-11-12T10:35:28","modified_gmt":"2024-11-12T10:35:28","slug":"393745","status":"publish","type":"reply","link":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/forums\/reply\/393745\/","title":{"rendered":"Reply To: Simulating a movement in Ansys Mechanical"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&lt;p&gt;Each point along the centerline has an initial position, p(0).&nbsp; You have the position at each time step, p(t).&nbsp; You need the deformation, so subtract the initial position from current position to get d(t) = p(t) &#8211; p(0).&lt;\/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;It&#8217;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.&nbsp; You need to calculate that from the position data if that is not already known. Can you do that?&lt;\/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&nbsp;&lt;\/p&gt;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-393745","reply","type-reply","status-publish","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/replies\/393745","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\/393745\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=393745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}