Nodes displacement after hypermorph

zz200
zz200 New Altair Community Member
edited January 2022 in Community Q&A

Hi everyone,

 

I have two quick questions. Currently, I used the hypermorph in hypermesh to deform a 3d model. What I want to obtain is the displacements of each surface nodes before and after the hypermorph, and use these displacements as an input of ansys or abaqus. My question is:

1. How to obtain the displacements vectors for the nodes? My model has 2000 nodes so it is not possible to manually calculate them.

2. How do I use the displacements as theinpu of boundary conditions for FEA software such as abaqus?

 
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  • Adriano_Koga
    Adriano_Koga
    Altair Employee
    edited January 2022

    1) Once you create a morph and save it as 'shapes', you can export them to external codes, using the 'export' option inside the 'optimization'>>'shapes' panel

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    2) i don't know the exact format that Abaqus uses, but probably you could use Compose, or another programming tool to convert the exported data into your format.