Export SPC forces in SimLab

Gonzalo_Mella23
Gonzalo_Mella23 Altair Community Member
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Hello,

I want to export the SPC forces from the simulation. I found an option called "Query results" in the results section, but I don’t know how to export them for all the time steps in the simulation. Is there a way to export all these forces over time for some shell elements? Is there any way to plot this?

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  • Adriano_Koga
    Adriano_Koga
    Altair Employee
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    depending on what you're aiming to do, I'd prefer to request these directly from the solver, in case, OptiStruct, requesting SPCF(OPTI)=ALL

    This would write the SPCForces into a .spcf ASCII file with all the data, or optionally you could define a node set to export the data.

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  • Adriano_Koga
    Adriano_Koga
    Altair Employee
    Answer ✓

    depending on what you're aiming to do, I'd prefer to request these directly from the solver, in case, OptiStruct, requesting SPCF(OPTI)=ALL

    This would write the SPCForces into a .spcf ASCII file with all the data, or optionally you could define a node set to export the data.

  • Gonzalo_Mella23
    Gonzalo_Mella23 Altair Community Member

    Thank you for your reply. I am a new user so I don't know how I can ask the solver directly. In my case, I use OptiStruct and I have the results of a bidirectional coupling, but I don't know where to use the command you mentioned. If you could send me a screenshot or something like that, it would be very valuable. Regards best.

  • Adriano_Koga
    Adriano_Koga
    Altair Employee

    hi,

    inside SL, once you have a solution, you need to add Result request, and select OPTI as format and add SPCFORCE (Contraint force)

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