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PATRAN - referring a vector to other than the global one

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Feb 15, 2016
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I was guessing too if it were possible, for example, to orientate a bar section referring to a coordinate
system other than the global one, i.e that in Patran is called Coord 0 .

After looking for how to do I finally found it is possible with the following syntax, if for example
one wish to use a vector referring to a new system, let's say, called Coord 1:

<x y z> Coord 1

That's all! Use the same syntax also in the node offset and it works great. I have written this here if someone else needs it
(I lost a lot of time to find it).
 
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