Change Hexa Elemental Coordinate System

Chayan
Chayan
Altair Employee
edited April 2022 in Altair Exchange

Overview

This script change order of nodes belong to hexa elems to change their elemental coordinate systems. Users can choose z-axis by a vector and x-axis by pass of nodes or a line. Only Nastran and Optistruct are supported. If other kinds of elems, tetra, shell, etc, are selected, this script does not do anything. #################################################### 説明 ヘキサ要素の節点順を並び替えて、要素座標系を変更します。Z軸は、ベクトルで、X軸は節点かラインでパスを選択できます。対応してるソルバは Nastran と Optistruct のみです。もしヘキサ以外の要素を選択しても、なにも処理されません。

Usage/Installation Instructions

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Limitation

Only Nastran and Optistruct are supported. If other kinds of elems, tetra, shell, etc, are selected, this script does not do anything.

Functionality

Meshing

Subfunctionality

3D Hex Meshing

Interface

Nastran|OptiStruct