RIGID

RIGID, Dof1, Dof2, Dof3, Dof4, Dof5, Dof6
Specifies known rigid body modes (if any) of the model.

Valid Products: Pro | Premium | Enterprise | PrepPost | Solver | AS add-on

Dof1, Dof2, Dof3, . . . , Dof6

Up to six global Cartesian directions of the rigid modes. For a completely free 2D model, use ALL or UX, UY, ROTZ. For a completely free 3D model, use ALL or UX, UY, UZ, ROTX, ROTY, ROTZ. For a constrained model, use UX, UY, UZ, ROTX, ROTY, or ROTZ, as appropriate, to specify each and every unconstrained direction which exists in the model (not specifying every direction may cause difficulties in extracting the modes).

Notes

Specifies known rigid body modes (if any) of the model. This command applies only to a component mode synthesis (CMS) analysis (see the CMSOPT command). Any rigid body modes specified must be permitted by the applied displacement constraints (that is, do not specify a rigid body mode in a constrained direction). Reissue the command to redefine the specification. If used in SOLUTION, this command is valid only within the first load step.

This command is also valid in PREP7.

Distributed-Memory Parallel (DMP) Restriction  —  This command is not supported in a DMP solution.

Menu Paths

Main Menu>Preprocessor>Loads>Analysis Type>Analysis Options
Main Menu>Solution>Analysis Type>Analysis Options