{"id":32079,"date":"2018-12-11T17:09:35","date_gmt":"2018-12-11T17:09:35","guid":{"rendered":"\/forum\/forums\/topic\/element-type\/"},"modified":"2018-12-11T17:09:35","modified_gmt":"2018-12-11T17:09:35","slug":"element-type","status":"closed","type":"topic","link":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/forums\/topic\/element-type\/","title":{"rendered":"Element type"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hi,<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>I am currently working on a model with just three solid elements. ANSYS student 2019 automatically assigns SOLID186 of which I doing a coupled&nbsp; structural-thermal analysis and need to use SOLID226. So far, I have used the following commands to change the element and when I observe the solution file, I see that the degrees of freedom for heat have been introduced but the element types remain SOLID186. Please help me with a way I could change this in the simulation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-32079","topic","type-topic","status-closed","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"acf":[],"custom_fields":[{"0":{"_bbp_old_topic_id":["4251"],"_bbp_old_topic_author_name_id":["Anonymous"],"_bbp_old_is_topic_anonymous_id":["false"],"_bbp_old_closed_status_id":["publish"],"_bbp_author_ip":[null],"_bbp_old_sticky_status_id":["normal"],"_bbp_likes_count":["0","0","0","0","0"],"_btv_view_count":["915"],"_bbp_topic_status":["unanswered"],"_bbp_status":["publish"],"_bbp_topic_id":["32079"],"_bbp_forum_id":["27789"],"_bbp_engagement":["240","897","17851","160889"],"_bbp_voice_count":["4"],"_bbp_reply_count":["5"],"_bbp_last_reply_id":["72287"],"_bbp_last_active_id":["72287"],"_bbp_last_active_time":["2018-12-13 01:20:41"]},"test":"mbakwa"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics\/32079","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/topic"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics\/32079\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}