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Once again, many thanks and good luck.

Unfortunately, operating on the beam section properties won't work. For example, assume you have two cantilever beams with a common node: untitled.PNG The beams are still capable of carrying bending. However the bending Degree of Freedom is zero for the common node. Many thanks however. Perhaps in a...

Is it not possible to have an interface that accesses the beam element stiffness matrices and and operate directly on those?

Many thanks.

For a beam element, is it possible to make the stiffness for any of the 6 degrees of freedom at one (or both) nodes zero (0)? This is sometimes refered to as a nodal/joint release or pin flags, or slide joints, etc...

Is it possible to release a nodal degree of freedom for an individual element?

thanks.