{"id":428552,"date":"2025-04-10T11:05:04","date_gmt":"2025-04-10T11:05:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/forums\/topic\/how-to-visualize-the-layup-the-section-of-an-element-in-mechanical\/"},"modified":"2025-04-10T11:05:04","modified_gmt":"2025-04-10T11:05:04","slug":"how-to-visualize-the-layup-the-section-of-an-element-in-mechanical","status":"publish","type":"topic","link":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/forums\/topic\/how-to-visualize-the-layup-the-section-of-an-element-in-mechanical\/","title":{"rendered":"How to visualize the layup the section of an element in Mechanical?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&lt;p&gt;Dear all,&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;I am struggling to visualize in Workbench somehow the layup of a composite structure in Mechanical. The problem is as follows: I have constructed a composite structure in ACP Pre which is than used in mechanical as shell model. In static structural I get a certain failure with the ACP failure criterion lets say &#8220;Max Stress&#8221; and it says it is in layer 27. As the structure is pretty complex, it&#8217;s not that easy to say which is layer 27. How can I plot for this particular element the Layup similar to the LAYPLOT command in APDL?&lt;\/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Is ACP actually creating layered sections for the shell elements? Or is there anything different behind?&lt;\/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Appreciate any help you could provide.&lt;\/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Greetings from Spain!&lt;\/p&gt;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-428552","topic","type-topic","status-publish","hentry","topic-tag-acp-compositematerials-1","topic-tag-mechanicalworkbench-1","topic-tag-acp","topic-tag-acp-ansys-2","topic-tag-layered-section","topic-tag-mechanical"],"aioseo_notices":[],"acf":[],"custom_fields":[{"0":{"_bbp_forum_id":["27791"],"_bbp_topic_id":["428552"],"_bbp_subscription":["342810","13694"],"_bbp_author_ip":["77.225.90.245"],"_bbp_last_reply_id":["428906"],"_bbp_last_active_id":["428906"],"_bbp_last_active_time":["2025-04-14 18:10:56"],"_bbp_reply_count":["1"],"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":["0"],"_bbp_voice_count":["2"],"_bbp_engagement":["342810","13694"],"_btv_view_count":["241"],"_bbp_topic_status":["unanswered"]},"test":"pnoevernorvento-com"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics\/428552","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\/428552\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=428552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}