MECHANICA Truss element

[Mloew]

Does anyone know how to create a "truss" element in MECHANICA? It seems to be available in FEM mode via a pull-down menu (containing "beam" and "truss"), but the menu is grayed out in standard MECHANICA mode. I would like to avoid creating beams and then releasing the rotational Degrees of Freedom.


I am using Wildfire 2.0 on Windows.


Thanks in advance.

 

[ghareeb98]

Matt,

As far as I know, "truss" elements exist only in the FEM Mode. Another
workaround (other than creating beams) would be to use spring
elements in place of one-dimensional truss members.

 

[Luis Aguirre]

Matt,


Use beam release to allow the beams to rotate with respect to the end points. Since there is no rotation the beam becomes a truss element.





Luis

 

[Israr]

Not only is truss elements grayed out but the beam elements end section option is grayed out.


When will ptc look into enabling these two options.


Israr