Structural Joints
- Last UpdatedNov 14, 2025
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The positional errors for Joints are measured as divergences of the Joint positions from their owning Nodes. The maximum permissible errors are defined, as for Sections, in terms of a Joint’s eccentricity.
Note: Joint eccentricities are defined separately for Pjoint (Primary Joint) and Sjoint (Secondary Joint) elements.
Keywords:
ECCENTRICITY PJOINT SJOINT
Description:
The ECCENTRICITY PJOINT and ECCENTRICITY SJOINT commands specify the maximum permissible distance between the position of a Primary Joint or a Secondary Joint, respectively, and that of its owning Node before a diagnostic message is output.
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Examples: |
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ECC PJOINT 1 |
Maximum error in Primary Joint position is 1 mm |
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ECC SJOINT 1 |
Maximum error in Secondary Joint position is 1 mm |
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ECC PJOIN 0.1 INCH |
Maximum error in Primary Joint position is 0.1 inch |
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ECC PJOIN DEFAULT |
Resets permissible Primary Joint error to 1 mm |
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ECC SJOIN DEF |
Resets permissible Secondary Joint error to 1 mm |
Command Syntax:
>--- ECCentricity ---+--- PJOInt --.
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‘--- SJOInt --+--- <uval> ----.
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‘--- DEFault -----+--->
Querying:
Q ECCentricity ---+--- PJOInt --.
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‘--- SJOInt ---+--->