FEM API Circular shaft error

[Pomer]

Hello,

I am trying to model a circular shaft using FEM API. However, the construct plate element input requires a planar surface. Is there anyway to have it accept a non-planar surface?

I then tried to change my circle to a polyline to have planar surfaces around the shaft but once I reach a certain tolerance I get there erro ‘Solution exception:Object reference not set to an instance of an object.’

Thanks

Jack

Structural Model.gh (729.7 KB)

[MarcoPelle]

Hi @Pomer

The shell elements seems to be properly exported.

The only issue I can see is related to the SurfaceVariableLoad. Intensity needs to have 3 values and in one of the branches, only 2 values are provided.

i.e. Remember to graft Surface and Direction. In your script that part was also missing.