Angled Spot Weld Beams Checker
Altair EmployeeOverview
To find all the two noded 1-d elements that are not perpendicular to their connected shell elements. Currently within HM, you can only do so by evaluating each of the many 1d elements which is time consuming.
Usage/Installation Instructions
Pick all the two noded 1d elements that you are interested and are connected to shell elements. Script will find the vector of the 1d elements. It will then find attached shell elements to 1d elements. It will find the vector of shell elements using any two nodes, it does it for shell elements on both the ends of the 1d element. It will then do a dot product between the vectors. If the angle between the vectors is 90, it will hide those elements. At the end of running the script, only 1d elements that are not perpendicular to the shell elements are displayed.
Limitation
This script won’t work when the 1d elements are connected to solids, spiders or any other element type, they have to be connected to shell elements. The quality of the shell elements has to be very good for the vector calculation. The 1d elements have to be two noded only. The 1d elements cannot be free, they have to be connected to shell element by node or it aborts with an error. The 1d element has to be one of these configs: bar2, bar3, plot, rbe2, rbe3, rod, spring, weld and joint
Functionality
Connectors
Subfunctionality
Checks