Define hinge at a member

[Zardasht84]

Define hinge at a member

[JWock82]

You are right - the example in the wiki had an error. To define a hinge, you should only set the hinge releases to True for the degrees of freedom you want to release. Releasing axial degrees of freedom and shears can lead to instabilities if you're not careful. For Sketch 2, you would need to release Rzj on member M2 for a hinge at the end of M2. You don't need to release anything else.

For more examples, have a look at the new documentation located here: https://pynite.readthedocs.io/en/latest/member.html

[Zardasht84]

The new documentation is clearer and now releases makes sense.