Hello All,
I have been having some issues with defining joints in my beams FEA's. The latest issue is shown below, where there are floating joints that are not connected to any beams:
Does anyone know why this happens? Is there a better way to define and/or edit joints? Thanks.
-Scott
It looks like you may be having problems with the Neutral Axis' of the beams in your part. In the Edit Joints window click on the show Neutral Axis check box to see where they are. If they are screwed up than you can redefine the NA by right clicking on the beam in the feature tree.
You can manually manipulate the joints once they have been created. Right click on the pink or yellow sphere representing the joint, click on the bodies you want to be connected in that joint (or remove bodies as needed) and then hit the calculate button. This only works if the joint is already close to where it should be anyway and you have to do it everytime you edit the joints.
You can post the part if you like and I can take a look.
Ryan W.