There’s no such predefined feature but you could define a beam element (through keyword editor because beams are not supported in GUI yet) and connect it to the rest of the model via rigid body constraints:
Hi everybody,
it’s my first time here so i’d like, first, to say thank you to the people that are improving the software.
I’m planning to test this software in some jobs where i’m using Ansys (some simple structures). The future objective is to use PrePoMax in the early stage of the design and Ansys only for the final checks.
The software has almost all the needed features, the only thing that is missing is the design of bolt connections. I’m tryng to create the missing parts with the editor …
Hello everyone. When I create rigid constraints and want to connect them to beam (via keywords). Bolt connection (similar to RBE2 with beams).
Every rigid constraint has two control nodes, for translation and rotation. Do I need to create two beams? One beam between transformation control nodes and second between rotation nodes?
*Rigid body, Nset=Internal_Selection-1_Rigid_Body-1, Ref node=2017, Rot node=2018
*Rigid body, Nset=Internal_Selection-1_Rigid_Body-2, Ref node=2019, Rot node=2020
*…