Area of 1D beam element using TCL

Altair Forum User

Hello Everyone!

How to get section area of 1D beam (for Beam4 - Ansys Profile) using tcl command. I can find the property id for a particular element/component by 'hm_getcardimagename props [hm_getentityvalue elem $elementid property.id 0]' but not able to get into this info and find out the beam area using tcl, please help me out.

 

Thanks in advance

tinh

Hi,

send us your hm file. or take a photo which indicate the value on cardimage that you want to retrieve

Altair Forum User

Hello,

Please check the attached file which has only one 1D beam (Ansys Profile). I am not sure how to get the area allotted to this beam using tcl, please let me know your comments.

Thanks!

 

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

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

Q.Nguyen-Dai

All data of 'BEAM4p' are saved into an array '$R_VAL2' which is exported from FE- template by using pointer. But within a TCL script I don't know how to get these values yet.

 

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

tinh

Hi,

equivalence command of @attributearrayvalue is hm_attributearrayvalue

so value of area can be retrieved by:

set Area [hm_attributearrayvalue props $PropId \$R_VAL2 1 -byid]

tinh

Or from HM14, using hm_getvalue

set Area [hm_getvalue props id=$PropId dataname=\$R_VAL2 row=0]

 

I am not sure why array index is starting from 1 in case of using hm_attributearrayvalue

Altair Forum User

Great! thanks for your help Tinh, Nguyen, appreciate your help.