How to measure angular displacement on a FEA simulation?

[Anonymous]

What is the best way to measure angular displacement on a FEA simulation?

A simple example is described here:
The screen shot shows a long rigid body (left) mounted on a bracket (far right).
The legs of the bracket are fixed on the right.  There is a down force on the left.
The goal is to measure vertical displacement on the left.
All of the vertical displacement comes from flexing at the bracket, so this can be considered an angular displacement.

Is there a way to measure this vertical displacement without the long rigid body or it's mesh elements?

Or is there a way to turn off the mesh elements on the rigid body?
I want to eliminate the unnecessary FEA computations to speedup the simulations.

Thank you.

[JDMather]

Is that an assembly or a single part?

Looks like an assembly to me - simply take out that large rigid part.

[Anonymous]

JDMather,

This was a two-part assembly.  I deleted the large rigid part on the left, but now there is not place for me to measure vertical displacemnt at the left end of the moment arm (that's what the large rigid part was for).  Is there some other way to measure vertical displacemnt at the left end of the moment arm?

Thank you.

[JDMather]

I am sure there is a way - but I do better communicating with actual geometry.  Can you attach the assembly here?

[Anonymous]

Thank you for lookin into this JDMather.  The assembly is attached.