apply displacement field

Gabriele Piscopo

Dear all,

I want to apply a displacement field on nodes in order to apply a deformation according to that displacement.

I have a txt file (from CMM machine) containing x y and z coordinates (in z I have the displacement that I want to apply). 

I create a field which read the txt file, however when I use the 'Realize' function, if I select displacement as a 'Field type' the algorithm does not work while, if I select 'Force' or 'Temperature' it works.

 

Do you have any idea why it does not work?

 

Thanks in advance,

Gabriele

Rishabh Awasthi_20948

Hello Gabriele 

Please make sure that the displacement data is in this format : 

Source : https://help.altair.com/hwdesktop/hwx/topics/pre_processing/entities/fields_r.htm?zoom_highlight=Fields

The reason is the displacement will have 6 dofs so each point will have 6 numerical values (3 for rotation and 3 for translation)