Release of Rotations at the Interface Between Plates in SOFIMSHA

SOFiSTiK
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Hi,
I have a series of plates placed next to each other, and I want to release the rotations at their interface in the SOFIMSHA module. Does anyone have an idea on how to do this?
Thanks in advance!

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I’m no wiz in SOFIMSHA, but from exporting a shell model from sofiplus to sofimsha, I believe you need to unlock each node of the given quad element:

NODE     2773 X   1.57500005 Y   5.82499981 Z   3.17764592
NODE     2773 X   1.57500005 Y   5.82499981 Z   3.17764592
NODE     5161 X   1.57500005 Y   5.51110315 Z   3.19552708
NODE     5160 X   1.57500005 Y   5.53484201 Z   2.89547467

NODE NO     2774 FIX KPR NR1 2379 DX -1 0 0
NODE NO     2773 FIX KPR NR1 2378 DX -1 0 0

QUAD    330025     2774     2773     5161     5160 MNO    3 MRF    0 NRA 7 POSI CENT T 40 C 0 CT 0 DRX        0.0   1.000000        0.0

Generally, I think exporting from sofiplus files to sofimsha/sofimshc is an easy way to see these things you can’t get a clear view of in the manual.