{"id":453630,"date":"2026-03-03T09:17:57","date_gmt":"2026-03-03T09:17:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/forums\/topic\/question-about-standard-orientation-of-beam-profile\/"},"modified":"2026-03-03T09:34:35","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T09:34:35","slug":"question-about-standard-orientation-of-beam-profile","status":"publish","type":"topic","link":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/forums\/topic\/question-about-standard-orientation-of-beam-profile\/","title":{"rendered":"How is the standard profile orientation defined?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&lt;p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Hi all,&lt;\/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;I am assigning profiles to curves in bulk, and am wondering why some of the profiles are flipped by a certain degree. I have an example in the image below. I&#8217;m really racking my brain as to why this is happening, as it requires me to suddenly estimate\/calculate and apply an orientation to some of the beams, which is not possible for my application. I already checked if it was due to the direction the curve was in, but that unfortunately was not the case.&lt;\/p&gt;&lt;p&gt; &lt;\/p&gt;&lt;p&gt; I saw that this happens consistently for more beams (see last image), so I suppose there is a pattern in there.&lt;\/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/03\/03-03-2026-1772529339-mceclip0.png\" width=\"438\" height=\"477\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/03\/03-03-2026-1772529377-mceclip3.png\" width=\"377\" height=\"212\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/03\/03-03-2026-1772529349-mceclip1.png\" width=\"148\" height=\"160\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/03\/03-03-2026-1772529361-mceclip2.png\" width=\"131\" height=\"152\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/03\/03-03-2026-1772530457-mceclip0.png\" \/>&lt;\/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;\/p&gt;&lt;p&gt; &lt;\/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Thank you very much!&lt;\/p&gt;&lt;\/p&gt;&lt;\/p&gt;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-453630","topic","type-topic","status-publish","hentry","topic-tag-beam","topic-tag-beam-profile","topic-tag-element-orientation-1","topic-tag-orientation-direction","topic-tag-profile","topic-tag-spaceclaim"],"aioseo_notices":[],"acf":[],"custom_fields":[{"0":{"_bbp_forum_id":["27789"],"_bbp_topic_id":["453630"],"_bbp_subscription":["650107","3937"],"_bbp_author_ip":["217.23.149.35"],"_bbp_last_reply_id":["454301"],"_bbp_last_active_id":["454301"],"_bbp_last_active_time":["2026-03-12 15:11:52"],"_bbp_reply_count":["1"],"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":["0"],"_bbp_voice_count":["2"],"_bbp_engagement":["650107","3937"],"_btv_view_count":["227"],"_bbp_topic_status":["unanswered"],"_edit_last":["650107"],"_bbp_revision_log":["a:2:{i:453634;a:2:{s:6:\"author\";i:650107;s:6:\"reason\";s:10:\"Title edit\";}i:453635;a:2:{s:6:\"author\";i:650107;s:6:\"reason\";s:15:\"Additional info\";}}"],"_edit_lock":["1772531541:650107"]},"test":"tvbnallseas-com"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics\/453630","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":2,"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics\/453630\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":453635,"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics\/453630\/revisions\/453635"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=453630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}