


At solve time, everything gets converted. This avoids making the user do coordinate system transformations. Why Coordinate Systems MatterĪNSYS cares a lot about coordinate systems because they allow the program to solve in a standard, global, Cartesian system while allowing loads, constraints, material directions, layer information, beam sections, joints, result values, and a whole slew of other important aspects of the model to be specified in unique coordinate systems. We will also go over the basics for Mechanical APDL (MADL) in case you need to work with snippets. We thought it would be a good idea to do a quick review of how they work in ANSYS Mechanical. And some users are constantly futzing around with them. They are there, but some users never fiddle with them. Coordinate systems are one of those things that are fundamental to Finite Element Analysis, but that most of us do not think about a lot.
