{"id":383322,"date":"2024-09-20T12:52:18","date_gmt":"2024-09-20T12:52:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/forums\/topic\/coordinate-system-aligned-to-nodes\/"},"modified":"2024-09-23T10:02:39","modified_gmt":"2024-09-23T10:02:39","slug":"coordinate-system-aligned-to-nodes","status":"closed","type":"topic","link":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/forums\/topic\/coordinate-system-aligned-to-nodes\/","title":{"rendered":"Coordinate System Aligned to Nodes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&lt;p&gt;Folks, I would like to know if it is possible to create a Cartesian coordinate system in Mechanical whose principal axis aligns between two nodes.&nbsp; In other words, I want to place the origin of the coordinate system at a specific node.&nbsp; I want its X axis to point directly towards another nearby node in the model.&nbsp; I know the CS command in APDL will do it, but I cannot find a way to do this in Mechanical.&nbsp;&lt;\/p&gt;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-383322","topic","type-topic","status-closed","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"acf":[],"custom_fields":[{"0":{"_bbp_subscription":["79744","58821"],"_bbp_author_ip":["24.101.112.51"],"_btv_view_count":["150"],"_bbp_topic_status":["answered"],"_bbp_status":["answered"],"_bbp_topic_id":["383322"],"_bbp_forum_id":["27791"],"_bbp_engagement":["58821","79744"],"_bbp_voice_count":["2"],"_bbp_reply_count":["6"],"_bbp_last_reply_id":["383360"],"_bbp_last_active_id":["383360"],"_bbp_last_active_time":["2024-09-20 16:35:22"]},"test":"mattprime-engineer-com"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics\/383322","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":1,"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics\/383322\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":383361,"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics\/383322\/revisions\/383361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=383322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}