Converting PCOMP/PCOMPG to PCOMPP

jerometeoh
jerometeoh Altair Community Member

Hi,

Is there a simple way to convert a PCOMP/PCOMPG composite model into PCOMPP?

Which allows me to easily changing the stacking sequences?

Best,

Jerome.

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  • Michael Herve_21439
    Michael Herve_21439
    Altair Employee
    edited January 30 Answer ✓
  • jerometeoh
    jerometeoh Altair Community Member

    Michael,

    Thank you for this.

    I cannot find the script in my pc.

    But I think I found out that as I am using HyperMesh 2023.1.

    Looks like I can just execute 'absorb' within the composite browser, it should yield the same result?

    Best,

    Jerome.

  • Hello @jerometeoh ,

    did you download the script available as attachment in th elink I shared with you?

    Best Regards,

    Michael

  • jerometeoh
    jerometeoh Altair Community Member

    Hi @Michael Herve_21439 ,

    I just found the script, it is useful thank you! I like how it executing it one-by-one.

    I was trying to use this to convert PCOMP to PCOMPP for some filiment winding pressure vessel application. I am wondering if you ever do that?

    Also, how do people typically use 'wound' ply type?

  • jerometeoh
    jerometeoh Altair Community Member

    Very thank you for the script!!

  • Michael Herve_21439
    Michael Herve_21439
    Altair Employee
    Answer ✓

    hello @jerometeoh ,

    “WOUND” is used to represent the filament winding process, where typical coverage of a “ply” can have all of spatially varying thickness and orientation on a spatially varying number of layers.

    WOUND today is usually populated from external manufacturing software. It’s just a datastructure though, and if your company has a manufacturing process from which they want to pass data which is spatially varying (including number of layers per “ply”), it can be populated via script.

    Hope that helps,

    Michael

  • jerometeoh
    jerometeoh Altair Community Member

    @Michael Herve_21439 thank you for the clarification!!