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Ancillary Best Practice

1.When considering a Complex Ancillary component for a particular modelling task, it is worth checking if it can be achieved with a Standard Pipe Section component instead. The latter approach can take advantage of automatic calculations for weights and stiffness properties (using defined materials) rather than inputting all the required data manually.