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Subject: Re: Superelement query
Author: Christopher Wright
Date: 1969-12-31 23:59:00>OTOH if PLANE82 elements are generated first and the superelements later ,
>coordinates of the generated nodes 1 to 5 are replaced by those of the
>superelement master nodes.
Defined nodes don't have anything to do with the substructure. You can't
'replace' substructure MDOF with nodes. You can renumber the MDOF (or at
one time you could) with /AUX 8 if you want to rename the MDOF, but the
only good reason to do it was to speed up the run by making the node
numbers as low as possible.
You might be able to do what it sounds like you're trying to do by
generating nodes 1-5 in the substructure generation pass coincident with
the master nodes and merging the master nodes. That effectively
associates nodes 1-5 with the master DOF, but you can only do it in the
generation pass.
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