{"id":158144,"date":"2022-06-06T09:58:49","date_gmt":"2022-06-06T09:58:49","guid":{"rendered":"\/knowledge\/forums\/topic\/how-to-plot-frequency-response-graphs-in-harmonic-analysis-in-a-local-coordinate-system-using-mechanical\/"},"modified":"2022-06-06T09:58:49","modified_gmt":"2022-06-06T09:58:49","slug":"how-to-plot-frequency-response-graphs-in-harmonic-analysis-in-a-local-coordinate-system-using-mechanical","status":"publish","type":"topic","link":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/knowledge\/forums\/topic\/how-to-plot-frequency-response-graphs-in-harmonic-analysis-in-a-local-coordinate-system-using-mechanical\/","title":{"rendered":"How to plot Frequency response graphs in harmonic analysis in a local coordinate system using Mechanical?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In Mechanical, Frequency Response graphs are always processed in the GLOBAL coordinate system, even if the nodes are rotated to any local coordinate system.<br \/>In Mechanical APDL \/POST26 graphs are always in the Solution coordinate system. Nodal quantities are reported in the NODAL coordinate system. If the nodes are rotated to a local coordinate system then \/POST26 graphs are in the local coordinate system.<br \/>At present, it&#8217;s not possible to plot the Frequency response graphs on the local coordinate system, but it&#8217;s possible to inset a Command snippet and take a snapshot from \/POST26 and make it available in Mechanical as a figure.  Alternatively, one can read the .rst into MAPDL and process the model in Mechanical APDL using \/POST26.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-158144","topic","type-topic","status-publish","hentry","topic-tag-frequency-response","topic-tag-harmonic-analysis"],"aioseo_notices":[],"acf":[],"custom_fields":[{"0":{"_wp_page_template":["default"],"_bbp_last_active_time":["06-06-2022 20:20"],"_bbp_forum_id":["27792"],"_btv_view_count":["2719"],"_bbp_likes_count":["0"]},"test":"articlesansys-com"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/knowledge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics\/158144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/knowledge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/knowledge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/topic"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/knowledge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics\/158144\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/knowledge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=158144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}