How to read the material properties of components with TCL

Altair Forum User

I want to create a text file with the volumes and material properties of all the components in my model.

 

I'm using this code to extract the volume:

 *createmark solids 1 all set solid_list [hm_getmark solids 1] foreach solid $solid_list {    *createmark solids 1 $solid    set vol [hm_getvolumeofsolid solid $solid]    puts '$vol' }

 

How can I extract the density (rho), modulus of elasticity (E), and Poisson's ratio (nu) from my components?

Thanks.

Adriano_Koga

these material properties are related to your material, so you should extract them from your material data, according with your solver for some cases, using hm_getvalue. For these 3 listed in your case, it is possible to get them directly like this.

 

hm_getvalue materials id=$matid dataname=youngsmodulus

hm_getvalue materials id=$matid dataname=poissonsratio

hm_getvalue materials id=$matid dataname=density

 

Can you try it?

Or if you want to retrieve from the component, this might work (have to test this).

hm_getvalue components id=$compid dataname=material.youngsmodulus