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Exporting Vectors by coordinates

User: "DURA"
Altair Community Member
Updated by DURA

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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    User: "tinh"
    Altair Community Member
    Updated by tinh

    Yes there is,

    Could you send a sample vector?

    User: "DURA"
    Altair Community Member
    OP
    Updated by DURA

    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

    User: "tinh"
    Altair Community Member
    Updated by tinh

    I mean you need upload an hm file containing the vector

    User: "DURA"
    Altair Community Member
    OP
    Updated by DURA

    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