{"id":425273,"date":"2025-03-12T03:33:26","date_gmt":"2025-03-12T03:33:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/forums\/topic\/rocky-fibers-with-rigid-joints-2\/"},"modified":"2025-03-12T03:33:26","modified_gmt":"2025-03-12T03:33:26","slug":"rocky-fibers-with-rigid-joints-2","status":"publish","type":"topic","link":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/forums\/topic\/rocky-fibers-with-rigid-joints-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Rocky Fibers with Rigid Joints"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&lt;p&gt;Hi, I am using Rocky to model a multi-element fiber moving in a fluid, but I would like to make the fiber joints rigid (i.e. &#8220;lock&#8221; them so that there&#8217;s no bending, torsion, etc). Can you please let me know how to do this? Thanks!&lt;\/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/03\/12-03-2025-1741750226-fiber.JPG\" alt=\"\" \/> &nbsp;&lt;\/p&gt;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-425273","topic","type-topic","status-publish","hentry","topic-tag-fiber","topic-tag-joint","topic-tag-rigid-2","topic-tag-rocky-dem-1"],"aioseo_notices":[],"acf":[],"custom_fields":[{"0":{"_bbp_forum_id":["27792"],"_bbp_topic_id":["425273"],"_bbp_subscription":["80372","14847"],"_bbp_author_ip":["128.189.245.113"],"_bbp_last_reply_id":["425577"],"_bbp_last_active_id":["425577"],"_bbp_last_active_time":["2025-03-13 14:43:30"],"_bbp_reply_count":["1"],"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":["0"],"_bbp_voice_count":["2"],"_bbp_engagement":["80372","14847"],"_btv_view_count":["189"],"_bbp_topic_status":["unanswered"]},"test":"parsaarystudent-ubc-ca"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics\/425273","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\/425273\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=425273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}