[Hypermesh Script] Generate new Contact Surface from an existing one

Altair Forum User

Dear all,

 

I need to generate a new contact surface in Hypermesh using a script getting the information from an existing one and offsetting these.

What I'm able to do is to get element id's and the face indices that compose the surface (using hm_getentityarray contactsurfs ... ). But the command *contactsurfcreatewithfaces needs as input element id's and nodes id's.

Is there a way to retrieve nodes id's starting from element id's and face indices?

 

Thank you very much for your help!

 

 

Bruno

tinh

Altair Forum User said:

Dear all,

 

I need to generate a new contact surface in Hypermesh using a script getting the information from an existing one and offsetting these.

What I'm able to do is to get element id's and the face indices that compose the surface (using hm_getentityarray contactsurfs ... ). But the command *contactsurfcreatewithfaces needs as input element id's and nodes id's.

Is there a way to retrieve nodes id's starting from element id's and face indices?

 

Thank you very much for your help!

 

 

Bruno

 

 

Hi

to get nodes of an elem:

set nodelist [hm_nodelist $elemID]

Altair Forum User

Thank you tinh for the reply! The solution was much easier than I expected. At the end I've solved using hm_getentityarray contactsurfs and *contactsurfcreatewithfacesusingfacenumber

 

Bruno