Selection of Cross section

Arvind_20679
Arvind_20679 New Altair Community Member
edited January 2023 in Community Q&A

Hallo 

I  am working  in Aerospace  for SA. 

For a Frame Structure  ( from 3D-drawing), each element has 12  cross sections.  f

From that I need to select a best cross section  and worst case cross section. Everytime, I open the .stp file and look the section and get the properties  and select the best and worst case... it is bit time consuming.. 

Do Altair , help me with some automation. (any code file), so that I managewith it..

Attached couple of sketches 

Thanks 

Arvind Gopalrathnam

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  • Adriano_Koga
    Adriano_Koga
    Altair Employee
    edited January 2023

    Have your tried HyperStudy? Or maybe even Design Explorer?

    Assuming that you're running a 1D model, with these, you could just create your 12 cross-sections and then bring your .fem file to HyperStudy and request it to change your PBEAM cross-section to a different one, and run your model, selecting the best section based on some criterea.

     

    It would be something like:

    .fem file

     

    ...

    #model..

    ...

    #properties

    PBEAM,ID,MAT_ID,.... cross-section_1

    PBEAM,ID,MAT_ID,.... cross-section_2

    PBEAM,ID,MAT_ID,.... cross-section_3

    ...

     

     

    from there, HyperStudy could turn it into a template, and change the PBEAM data to something else, by generating a template.

     

    I'm not sure if this is what you're looking for, but it might be helpful.

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