{"id":462866,"date":"2026-08-22T19:47:57","date_gmt":"2026-08-22T19:47:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/forums\/topic\/spliting-beams\/"},"modified":"2026-08-22T19:47:57","modified_gmt":"2026-08-22T19:47:57","slug":"spliting-beams","status":"publish","type":"topic","link":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/forums\/topic\/spliting-beams\/","title":{"rendered":"Spliting beams"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Help with spltiing this generated beam ,&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In this image, you can see 2 splits; one of them a previous student did it correctly , which iam trying to understand how did he do it&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The one on the left side I did it in Ansys Discovery; as you can see, splitting the generated beam causes many problems with sharing the object with the original beam. I used all types of splitting objects. But each time i split it, completly unshare it from the beam&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>. Then sharing it back dont work as I hope. Could you help me work around this? i want to introduce damage to this beam the idea is want to crack this beam as in the right-side green line.&nbsp; And run a random vibration simulation&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/08\/Screenshot-2026-08-22-213348-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"808\" height=\"732\"><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-462866","topic","type-topic","status-publish","hentry","topic-tag-beam"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t<!-- All in One SEO 4.9.10 - aioseo.com -->\n\t<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Help with spltiing this generated beam , In this image, you can see 2 splits; one of them a previous student did it correctly , which iam trying to understand how did he do it The one on the left side I did it in Ansys Discovery; as you can see, splitting the generated beam\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"max-image-preview:large\" \/>\n\t<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/forums\/topic\/spliting-beams\/\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"generator\" content=\"All in One SEO (AIOSEO) 4.9.10\" \/>\n\t\t<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n\t\t<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Ansys Learning Forum | Ansys Innovation Space\" \/>\n\t\t<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n\t\t<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Spliting beams | Ansys Learning Forum\" \/>\n\t\t<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Help with spltiing this generated beam , In this image, you can see 2 splits; 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