Products: Abaqus/Standard Abaqus/Explicit
Benefits: You can now use a distribution to define spatially varying orientations on connector elements, which greatly simplifies the modeling process.
Description: In Abaqus/Standard and Abaqus/Explicit you can define orientations for connector elements using a distribution. For models that have a significant amount of spatial variation in their orientations, this enhancement allows you to minimize the number of section definitions and orientation definitions needed for the model.
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