Forces From Pressures
Altair EmployeeOverview
Creates equivalent forces based on pressures. The user selects pressures and the macro creates a force at each corner of the tria3 or quad4 element based on the pressure magnitude and element face area. These loads are organized into a new load collector. The macro will not clean-up the new load collector. So, you'll end up with duplicate loads if you run the macro more than once on the same pressures. There will be double/triple/quadruple forces at most shell element corners. This is correct. The pressures of each element are getting pushed to the corners. Adjacent elements will contribute forces to shared nodes. The total load will be correct. Check your work with the BCs>Check>LoadSummation tool.
Usage/Installation Instructions
1. Run the script
2. Select Loads
3. Clean up new forces organized into "tempNewForces"
Functionality
Meshing
Subfunctionality
2D Meshing