Creating a variable loading

Altair Forum User

Anyone have any suggestions on how to create pressure loads at element centroids by applying an equation? Thanks so much!

I found a great Hyperworks Tip/Trick (#396) for creating a variable loading, but the 'Field Loads' Macro mentioned in the document is not available on the macro menu. Which macro file should I be loading to be able to find this menu? I also tried the instructions found in the Hypermesh 8[1].0 User's Guide.pdf, on page 337, after loading the dlm.mac. The 'Math...' is no where to be found and neither is the Field Loads macro on the Geom/Mesh menu.

Altair Forum User

It looks like the Field Loads.... button that was in the mesh page of HM7.0 didn't get included when the Geom and Mesh panels of the util menu were combined in HM8.0. However, the code for this macro is still available in the hm/scripts/dlm directory. you can add this tool by adding the following commands to the userpage.mac file, or some another macro file you are using

*createbutton(5, 'Field Loads...      ', 0, 0, 10, BUTTON, 'Create load by equations.', 'tcl_script', 'mathbc.tcl')*beginmacro('tcl_script')        *evaltclscript($1,1)*endmacro()

Good luck!