MACRO TO DIFFERENTIATE SOLID AND SHEET METAL

Altair Forum User
Altair Forum User
Altair Employee
edited October 2020 in Community Q&A

hi everyone,

I need help to find out if there is a command or macro that can find and categorise sheet metal with no thickness and solids with some thickness? does it exist. If so , please let me know. I really need it

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  • Altair Forum User
    Altair Forum User
    Altair Employee
    edited May 2017

    Hi Sonu,

    From the mask browser you can show. hide or isolate all points, lines, surfaces and solids within any displayed components.

     

    <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>mask.PNG

  • Altair Forum User
    Altair Forum User
    Altair Employee
    edited May 2017

    Hi johnson,

    tq for the reply. I might have nt asked the right question. I have some components with just surfaces ( as in midsurfaces) and some comps with some thickness. How to differentiate those two ?

     

    Tq for reply in advance...

  • Altair Forum User
    Altair Forum User
    Altair Employee
    edited May 2017

    Hi Sonu,

    You can differentiate solids and surfaces by keeping the Geometry color mode to by topo, so that HyperMesh will differentiate entities on geometrical properties.

    <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>topo.PNG

  • Altair Forum User
    Altair Forum User
    Altair Employee
    edited May 2017

    HI johnson,

    tq again. I could manually do that , yes. but i needed a macro that differentiatte and categorise the two geometries on its own

  • tinh
    tinh Altair Community Member
    edited May 2017

    Hi,

    You can do like this

    #assume that you displayed comps you want to check on screen

    *settopologyedgedisplay 1 0

    *settopologyedgedisplay 2 0

    *settopologyedgedisplay 3 0

    *settopologyedgedisplay 0 1; #turn on free-edge and turn off others

    *createmark lines 1 displayed;# solid comps will not have free-edge

    puts 'non-thickness comps: [set NonThickness [hm_getmarkvalue lines 1 collector.id 0]]'

    *settopologyedgedisplay 1 1

    *settopologyedgedisplay 2 1

    *settopologyedgedisplay 3 1

    *createmark comps 1 displayed

    eval *createmark comps 2 $NonThickness

    *markdifference comps 1 comps 2

    puts 'with-thickness comps: [hm_getmark comps 1]'

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