Add a result output coordinate system for 2D/3D element. The default rectangular/cylindrical coordinate system is defined and another coordinate system can be added by arbitrarily defining 1 of the three planes on the coordinate system. The added coordinate system can be used as the material coordinates when the properties of the 2D / 3D elements are defined. For 2D structural members, it is especially hard to unify the element coordinate system in 1 direction depending on the element shape. It is useful to set the output coordinate system to check the member forces of the entire structure according the same direction and sign convention.
▒Methodology
There are 2 types of coordinate systems; rectangular and cylindrical. The coordinate system can be set by defining 1 of the three planes of the coordinate system 12, 23, 31 (XY,YZ,ZX) by entering three points. In other words, the plane that passes the three points becomes 1 of the 12, 23, 31 planes and the other 2 planes are automatically determined by the direction of the reference plane.
Select the plane, origin point, a point on 1 axis of the selected plane and a point on the selected plane in this order to specify the position and direction of the reference plant.
Add a result output coordinate system for 2D/3D element. The default rectangular/cylindrical coordinate system is defined and another coordinate system can be added by arbitrarily defining 1 of the three planes on the coordinate system. The added coordinate system can be used as the material coordinates when the properties of the 2D / 3D elements are defined. For 2D structural members, it is especially hard to unify the element coordinate system in 1 direction depending on the element shape. It is useful to set the output coordinate system to check the member forces of the entire structure according the same direction and sign convention.
