dummy link to transfer load

[sibarut]

Hi, how can I make a trick to make a load that don't lie in bar but has something to hold the load in an offset distance to a moment? please see the photo to make question clearer.

Thanks.

[Artur.Kosakowski · Accepted solution]

You can either create a node and connect it with another node defined along a bar with a rigid link or try to use load on eccentricity instead.

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[sibarut]

Thanks. Bar force works. For rigid link, I made a node and set rigid link between 2 nodes But when I start calculate it gives me this:

Instability (of type 1) detected at node 4 in direction UX....

Is this okay? I blocked UY and RY because I don't have any force acting on these directions.

I would like to use a node to locate the force so I could easily manipulate the location because bar force eccentricity should always need some location along the bar.

[Artur.Kosakowski]

You should block all d.o.fs.

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