How do I output displacement at a point on rigid body?

[yw5aj]

Dear all,

In ANSYS Mechanical (not the APDL), can I output the displacement at a point (vertex) on a rigid body?

I tried User Defined Result which exported all displacements at all nodes. But because the rigid body is not meshed, there are no nodes nearby the point that I want to probe.

Any ideas?

Thank you!

Shawn

 

[marianw88]

Did you tried placing Coordinate System? Then I think there is Probe Position option in results - so you assign body and coordinate system to it.

 

[assafwei]

I am not sure if I understood you correctly, but if I did and you need displacement plot on a specific node, then do the following:

Choose the node, and create a named selection from it, then insert a "deformation" plot, in "scoping method" choose "named selection" and choose the named selecion containing that node.

 

[yw5aj]

Thank you marianw88 and assafwei! I made it work with a very similar method as you mentioned. Currently I used remote point to probe the displacement and force, as it is allowed to have remote points on rigid body; I never tried to use the coordinate system method and it sounds much better. I will definitely try it.

Thank you again!

Shanw