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connector defined in spherical CSYS

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Juanpradera

Automotive
Sep 28, 2006
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Hello,

I've just defined a CSYS type=S, to apply a spherical connector to it.
I'm receiving the error message :"a material point in element xx lies on the polar axis. The orientation cannot be defined.Use the option orientation,System=rectangular or move the polar axis away from the material point".

The nodes of this connector point directly to the center of this sphere,to model this spherical joint, and I don't seem to understand the problem with orientation definition.

Can someone help?

thanks
 
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