Can you export faces with corresponding node ids from a model in HyperView?

Jonas Kneifl

Hi together,

I want to animate a model outside of Hyperview and therefore need information about the faces and the corresponding nodes/vertices.
Is it possible to export this information, e.g., in the form of a list of all node ids building a face?

Thanks in advance

Adriano A. Koga

what do you mean by 'faces'? do you need the element connectivity? (elements/nodes)?

if yes, you can export them from HM easily, by using 'faces' command, and export displayed.

Jonas Kneifl

Thanks for your fast response. Unfortunately, this is not exactly what I am seeking for. 
Face definition from Wikipedia: "In solid geometry, a face is a flat surface (a planar region) that forms part of the boundary of a solid object;" 

I tried to demonstrate it on the following picture:

However, it is not clear which nodes of the element form a face from the element connectivity.

Adriano A. Koga

Jonas Kneifl said:

Thanks for your fast response. Unfortunately, this is not exactly what I am seeking for. 
Face definition from Wikipedia: "In solid geometry, a face is a flat surface (a planar region) that forms part of the boundary of a solid object;" 

I tried to demonstrate it on the following picture:

However, it is not clear which nodes of the element form a face from the element connectivity.

despite of wikipedia's definition, people can think on faces as many different definitions

anyway:

can you describe what exactly do you need as an output?

just nodes from a particular face? or coordinates as well?

You can get this using a script, but you need to have a sample output file.

 

The attached scripts could be tuned to perform what you need in HyperMesh/HyperWorks.

You just need to use the 'by face' selection.

Jonas Kneifl

Yeah that is true I hope that it is clear now.

I just need the node ids of all faces.
Supposing there are n faces with x nodes each, it could look like this:

face	node id 1	...	node id x
1	1	...	3
2	3	...	5
...	...	...	...
n	100	...	114

I would be very glad, if I could get this information with a script. 
Unfortunately, I'm not able to find your attached script. Where can I find them?

Adriano A. Koga

Jonas Kneifl said:

Yeah that is true I hope that it is clear now.

I just need the node ids of all faces.
Supposing there are n faces with x nodes each, it could look like this:

face	node id 1	...	node id x
1	1	...	3
2	3	...	5
...	...	...	...
n	100	...	114

I would be very glad, if I could get this information with a script. 
Unfortunately, I'm not able to find your attached script. Where can I find them?

sorry about that.

now they're attached here.

you could adapt these scripts to get what you want.