Selection of Cross section

Arvind_20679

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

FRAME_Cross Section-Altair.pdf

Adriano_Koga

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.