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How to display beam element standard shape cross section centroid location

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faremusai

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I am using v9.3 and want to extract the location of cross section centroid a beam element having a standard shape (angle or channel) through API programming. It seems that there is no data showing relevant information. Only the values for I1, I2, I12, Y shear area, Z shear area, torsional constant, Y shear center offset, Z shear center offset are shown.

Is it not available in 9.3?
if it is the case, how can we derive the location of centroid using the data already shown?
 
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