4.2 Enhancements to distributions

Products: Abaqus/Standard  Abaqus/Explicit  Abaqus/CAE  

Benefits: You can easily define distributions of orientations on models that use parts and part instances.

Description: You can now define a distribution of orientations at the part or part instance level. Abaqus automatically transforms the orientation values from the part's coordinate system into the assembly coordinate system using the part instance transformation.

Abaqus/CAE Usage: 
Property module, Interaction module, or Load module:
   ToolsDiscrete FieldCreate: for fields associated with elements and defined using orientations: 
   toggle on Supplied orientation directions are defined in part space
References:

Abaqus Analysis User's Manual

Abaqus/CAE User's Manual

Abaqus Keywords Reference Manual