General Remarks About Coordinate Systems

This section contains remarks about coordinate systems.

  1. When coordinate systems are loaded via the FE interface, their numbers are treated as names (character strings) in SIMULIA Tosca Structure. For example, the coordinate system 15 (number) in the FE system is defined in SIMULIA Tosca Structure as a coordinate system with the name “15”.
  2. In SIMULIA Tosca Structure the following coordinate system is defined globally and can be addressed at any time: CS_0: Global Cartesian coordinate system
  3. A coordinate system defined in Tosca ANSA® environment will only be written to the parameter file if it is used for some reason, e.g., as the value of PULL_CS field of DEMOLD_CONTROL dialog.
  4. Default name of a coordinate system that is defined in Tosca ANSA® environment when using ANSYS® solver is "Anonymous CS" (without any index). When defining more than one such coordinate system, their names should be modified so that they are unique.