{"id":43193,"date":"2020-04-24T10:08:56","date_gmt":"2020-04-24T10:08:56","guid":{"rendered":"\/forum\/forums\/topic\/defining-beam-orientation-in-mechanical\/"},"modified":"2020-04-24T10:08:56","modified_gmt":"2020-04-24T10:08:56","slug":"defining-beam-orientation-in-mechanical","status":"closed","type":"topic","link":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/forums\/topic\/defining-beam-orientation-in-mechanical\/","title":{"rendered":"Defining Beam Orientation in Mechanical"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With the 2020 R1 release of ANSYS it is now possible to define cross sections and assign them to line bodies within the Mechanical application (previously you had to use one of the ANSYS CAD tools, breaking associativity with the source CAD program).<\/p>\n<p>The problem is I don&#8217;t see how to define the orientation of the beam element within mechanical. 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