How to assign 1 property per 1 element in Hypermesh?

How many elements do you have in your model?

it would be possible to create a script, for that, but maybe excel or some text editor would be enough depending on what you already have.

I'm attaching a similar script, not completed, that does something similar to your request, if I remeber correclty.. 

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Try this code:

 foreach eid $elemList { 	#creat property with pid=eid 	*setvalue elems id=$eid propertyid=$pid }

How many elements do you have in your model?

 

~8000 elements and ~100 properties

How to assign 100 prop to 8000 elems? Based on some criteria ?

Thank you.

Now I can split all properties in a way that each element has its own property.

So I have like 10000 properties. This is what I need.

But I still don't know how to assign to each property ID of an element inside this property.

Now I have Prop ID = 1 with Element ID = 2000 in it.

My goal to have Prop ID = 2000 with element ID = 2000.

If you want to assign property ID=2000 to element ID=2000 AND if all properties exist already, use my following code:

 *createmarkpanel elements 1 'Select elements' set elemList [hm_getmark elements 1]  foreach eid $elemList {     *createmark props 1 $eid     set propList [hm_getmark props 1]     if { [llength $propList] == 1 } { 	   *setvalue elems id=$eid propertyid=$eid     } else {        puts 'Prop ID=$eid does not exist!'     } }

It's almost what I need, but I have 2000 elements in ID range 10000 - 12000 (example) AND 2000 properties with ID range 1 - 1999.

Element #10000 has property with ID = 23.

Goal is to renumber current element property with ID of the element.

You can use 'Tool' => Renumber => Property,

but this automatical method is dangereous and you can get wrong results with element.

What's the difference between Prop 1 & Prop 2, shell thickness? Your elements are shell type?

I have 3 elm types. 

Crod/Cbar and Cshell.

I did try Renumber tool, but in my case it's too time consuming to renumber properties 1 by 1.

As I can see the process:

1) choose element

2) check the property assigned to this element

3) now we have element ID and property ID.

4) set property ID = element ID - where I stuck.

But, as I understand there are 2 ID types in HM: solver ID and HM internal ID. 

I tried *renumbersolverid properties 1 $elem_id 1 0 0 0 0 0 as it in command.tcl, but it doesn't work properly.

It's not a good idea to work on numbering (ID) of element/prop.

You have to found another method: element type, thickness, location,... maybe in combining with element sets,...etc.

In nastran, PID is equal EID by default if you don't assign property to element

Don't use *commands in long 'for' loops, use 'puts' to write property cards to a file then import that file, it just takes a few seconds.

Ok. Thank you for the help.

I did what I want. 

My script is attached.

1) choose element

2) store elem ID and prop ID

3) create new property with PID = EID and Pname = EID

4) update new property with stored data from old prop

5) assign new property to element

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You can do this using the Aerospace Tool. First you need to activate the tool by going to Preferences-User Profiles, on the box, select Aerospace Tool, then OK. The tool will now appear on the top bar.

Next select Aerospace-Spatial ID manager-Property by Element ID

Select the elements or all elements and proceed. A bit late but hope it 's useful