Exporting Vectors by coordinates

DURA
DURA Altair Community Member
edited October 2020 in Community Q&A

I have two meshes, an original and a deformed mesh, and I created vectors to track the displacements of several points-of interest to hopefully make a transformation matrix. These Vectors were made using the same node on the two different meshes as the start and end points. Is there anyway to export these nodes? I know I can export the nodes as coordinates and manually pair them up, but there are too many to do by hand. Is there anyway to export the vectors like elements in .inp file, with the start and end node ids?

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  • tinh
    tinh Altair Community Member
    edited March 2020

    Yes there is,

    Could you send a sample vector?

  • DURA
    DURA Altair Community Member
    edited March 2020

    Thanks for reply. What do you mean by send a sample vector? I cant seem to export the vector, as it doesnt show up in the inp file

  • tinh
    tinh Altair Community Member
    edited March 2020

    I mean you need upload an hm file containing the vector

  • DURA
    DURA Altair Community Member
    edited June 2020

    Hi, I realize I never replied, but in case anyone has the issue, I made 1-D Rod elements, renumbered the Original and Deformed Meshes so that the nodes are easily identifiable,  and exported to .inp file, where I could read the node elements

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