BeamOrientation object

The BeamOrientation object represents the direction of the first beam section axis $n_{1}$ . Specifying the beam orientation using an additional node in the element connectivity list is not supported.

The following topics are discussed:

Access
Members

Access

import odbAccess
session.odbs[name].parts[name].beamOrientations[i]
session.odbs[name].rootAssembly.instances[name].beamOrientations[i]
session.odbs[name].steps[name].frames[i].fieldOutputs[name].values[i]\
.instance.beamOrientations[i]

Members

The BeamOrientation object can have the following members:

method: A SymbolicConstant specifying the orientation assignment method. Possible values are N1_COSINES, CSYS, and VECT.
region: An OdbSet object specifying a region for which the beam orientation is defined.
vector: A tuple of Floats specifying direction cosines of the $n_{1}$ -direction of the beam cross-section.