Hello Dears

I've modeled a jacket system in the software. I's included some bends and miters. After running it will be shown on the destctop:"Node 15 already exists at the BEND NEAR POINT on element 15 to 20. Do not try to respecify". What is it and what should I do?
I've attached a simplified file from that.

Thanks

You need to delete the Node 2, Angle 2 entries in your bend specification because you are modeling this element fitting-to-fitting and the From Node already is at the near weld point of the bend, which is where Angle 2 = 0 degrees is also located.

Alternatively, uncheck Bend box and select again Bend. Usually works.

Regards,

in my model, the element length before of bend was same as bend radius. By running the analysis, I got this error message. As a solution I decreased the length of the element before this and increased the length at the bend and the error message disappeared.

danb, your method did not work in my case!