Script to remove free nodes from rigid spiders - Hypermesh

Patrick Jansson
Patrick Jansson Altair Community Member
edited August 2021 in Community Q&A

Dear All,

I am interesting in finding a .tcl-script to remove free nodes from rigid spider elements. The HM-model had initially rigid spiders defined on second order tetrahedral elements, which later was updated to first order elements. By updating each spider manually, to remove the free node created, will be very time consuming due to vast amount of rigid spiders used in the model. 

thanks,

Patrick

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  • Adriano A. Koga
    Adriano A. Koga
    Altair Employee
    edited August 2021

    What solver are you using?

    Is it OptiStruct?

    Not the solution that you're looking for, but for these cases you could use PARAM,RBE2FREE to ignore the errors.

     

     

  • Patrick Jansson
    Patrick Jansson Altair Community Member
    edited August 2021
    Adriano A. Koga_21884 said:

    What solver are you using?

    Is it OptiStruct?

    Not the solution that you're looking for, but for these cases you could use PARAM,RBE2FREE to ignore the errors.

     

     

    Hello,

     

    The solve I am using is Abaqus Standard. 

     

    Regards, 

     

    Patrick

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