6.1.4.4. Stiff Beam

Supported for line bodies only, when you define a line body's Stiffness Behavior as Stiff Beam:

  • Only structural analyses support this feature. For example, thermal or electrical analyses are unaffected.

  • The application approximates a rigid beam by making the Young's modulus 1e4 times higher than defined in the Engineering Data Workspace.

  • The body must be assigned a material that is valid for Isotropic Young's Modulus.

  • The application automatically specifies this option on a line body if the "RIGID" setting in SpaceClaim Direct Modeler is equal to True (this is triggered by the SpaceClaim Split Operation).

  • A body specified with this option is meshed and will have results.