Align Tools: Flip Entity

Description

Flips selected beams, plates, faces and load paths. The way this is achieved for the different entity types varies.

• Beam elements

  End nodes are swapped flipping the principal 3-axis.

  This will affect the other axis directions and may affect applied attributes.

• Plate elements

  The local z axis is flipped by re-ordering the node numbering sequence.

  This will affect the other axis directions and may affect applied attributes.

• Geometry faces

  The local z axis is flipped.

  Geometry faces keep track of their normal direction independently of their topology or other attributes applied to them. Flipping the local z axis therefore affects only surface dependent attributes.

• Load paths

  The local z axis is flipped.

  Load paths keep track of their normal direction independently of their topology or other attributes applied to them. Flipping a load path will only affect loads applied in the local system of the path.

Dialog

Common Controls

• Keep Selection

See Also

• Align Tools: Plate Normal by Connection
• Align Tools: Face Normal by Connection
• Align Tools: Beam 3-Axis by Connection
• Align Tools: Invert Path Normal