Dear Alex thanks a lot for your answer and sorry for late reply. Actually I want to rotate a volume and its corresponding (elements, nodes …) around a centre. I have found Vtran command for this purpose.
My new problem is: how can I define a local coordinate system that makes a rotation on a special centre after transporting a volume to it?
I am modelling a hip joint and I want to rotate femur bone around pelvic. The volumes are created at another program with iges format and they are imported to Ansys.
If you truly want to create a volume then by definition you would rotate an area about an axis. You cannot rotate a volue to get a volume. VTRAN is simply to copy a volume from the active coordinate system to the same relative position in another defined coordinate system. It's used to move or copy objects.
Dear Stringmaker's, thank you for your reply. I have created the volumes in another program and now I want only to rotate one of them around a special point (femur in acetablum). I do not want to create new volume.
As the rotation point is not at the origin of coordinate system, every rotation makes a transformation at this point too.
My problem is: how can I define a local coordinate system that makes a rotation on a special centre after transporting a volume to it? (without changing the position of this point)
Hi,
if I understand well, you have plenty of ways to define a CSYS where you want. See LOCAL, CSWPLA, CS, CLOCAL, CSKP.
If you define it as "cylindrical", the move/copy transformation will then be trivial because the Y-coordinate is the rotation (in degrees by default).
Dear friends, I think, I could not explain my problem exactly.
I have two volumes with Iges format, which is imported to Ansys. They are created in Cartesian coordinate system in Geomagic program. Now I want to rotate one of them (after meshing) around a point in Ansys classic. (The point is not at origin)
I do not want to copy a new volume. I just want to analyse a joint at different positions.
Thank you very much for your answers.
