Thanks Brian,
I found a way to work around my problem. I just modeled the truss as a sketch in Solidworks (which is really easy to do using simple constraints) and then exported the sketch to ANSYS ... and then asked ANSYS to give me the XYZ coords of all the keypoints that I was interested in...
Hi, Im working on a truss analysis project where I am trying to model a basic crane arm truss structure similar to this one:
http://www1.istockphoto.com/file_thumbview_approve/590654/2/istockphoto_590654_crane.jpg
I plan to setup the keypoints and links as if the crane arm were perfectly...