Displacement Response

Create a Design Response that measures the maximum displacement of some boundary region for a set of boundary conditions. The response is derived from the solution of a linear static structural finite element analysis. The best performance is achieved if: 1) the selected region is local and contains few nodes, and 2) the selected region is loaded or assigned to be passive.

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Name	Type	Description
Boundary	Boundary	Boundary that the design response will be computed on.
Load case	Boundary Condition List	Load case for the design response.
Direction	Direction Component Enum	Operation that will be applied to all nodal displacement components of the Boundary input before being aggregated with the max operator. \|X\| will compute the magnitude of the displacement vector projected onto the X-axis, \|XY\| will compute the magnitude of the displacement vector projected onto the plane spanned by the X-axis and Y-axis, and \|XYZ\| will compute the magnitude of the non-projected displacement vector.
Frame	Frame	Reference frame that the displacement vector will be computed in. If a Frame is not specified, the global coordinate system will be used.

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Type
Design Response

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