2.4. Model Verification (Preprocessing)

If the CYCLIC command's default automatic detection capability accepts your model for cyclic analysis, the program will have already verified the following two essential conditions for a cyclic analysis:

  • When your model rotates by the cyclic angle about the local Z axis of the cyclic coordinate system, the edges identified as "low" occupy the same space as those identified by "high" prior to the rotation.

  • The cyclic angle divides evenly into 360°.

If you specify edge components and cyclic quantities manually, you must verify the two conditions yourself.