{"id":362750,"date":"2024-04-17T16:19:08","date_gmt":"2024-04-17T16:19:08","guid":{"rendered":"\/forum\/forums\/topic\/multiple-component-coordinate-systems-to-fluent-for-material-properties\/"},"modified":"2024-04-17T16:19:08","modified_gmt":"2024-04-17T16:19:08","slug":"multiple-component-coordinate-systems-to-fluent-for-material-properties","status":"closed","type":"topic","link":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/forums\/topic\/multiple-component-coordinate-systems-to-fluent-for-material-properties\/","title":{"rendered":"Multiple component coordinate systems to fluent for material properties"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hi,<br \/>I have an array of components in a fluid domain (order of hundreds), each of which has cylindrical material properties.<br \/>I have created local coordinates in spaceclaim that would be the origin for the material properties. This workflow works in mechanical.<br \/>However, I understand that fluent works entirely on the global coordinate system &#8211; and as such, each component would require the material property axis to referenced according to&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Is there a way of exporting the local coordinates from spaceclaim into something fluent can understand?<br \/>Is there a way of &#8216;looping&#8217; through each components applying the material properties appropriately.<\/p>\n<p>I have a horrible feeling I may need to start getting my head around UDFs and python . . . but if anyone could give some examples as a head start I&#8217;d very much appreciate it!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-362750","topic","type-topic","status-closed","hentry","topic-tag-fluent-ansys-1","topic-tag-anisotropic","topic-tag-cylindrical-coordinates","topic-tag-global-coordinate-system-1","topic-tag-orthotropic-materials"],"aioseo_notices":[],"acf":[],"custom_fields":[{"0":{"_bbp_subscription":["274046","199"],"_bbp_author_ip":["168.143.243.24"]," _bbp_last_reply_id":["0"]," _bbp_likes_count":["0"],"_btv_view_count":["573"],"_bbp_topic_status":["unanswered"],"_bbp_topic_id":["362750"],"_bbp_forum_id":["27792"],"_bbp_engagement":["199","274046"],"_bbp_voice_count":["2"],"_bbp_reply_count":["8"],"_bbp_last_reply_id":["364869"],"_bbp_last_active_id":["364869"],"_bbp_last_active_time":["2024-04-30 11:06:35"]},"test":"conor-leightonrmlgroup-com"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics\/362750","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\/362750\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=362750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}