Import of point coordinates (.dat File) directly into Hypermesh possible?

Can't you find a cad software to do that?

Hi tinh, thank you very much for your quick answer!

For the spline construction, a CAD software would be more appropriate, that's true. Nethertheless I would like to know if there is a way to import dat. file into Hypermesh?

Thank you and Greetings

Martin

Hypermesh can import STL data

if you have only coordinates x, y, and z, I think a bit modification is needed

like this:

*NODE

1,x1,y1,z1

2,x2,y2,z2

3,x3,y3,z3

...

=> import the file as LsDyna file

You can modify it easily in Excel

Or a simple tcl script can do it

example your original point_coord.dat file is:

x1  y1  z1

x2  y2  z2

x3  y3  z3

a script like this will generate key file

 proc Dat2Key {FilePath} {       set fpt [open $FilePath]       set buf [read -nonewline $fpt]       close $fpt       set buf [string map [list \n \n1, ' ' ,] $buf]      set fpt [open $FilePath.key w]       puts -nonewline $fpt *NODE\n1,       puts -nonewline $fpt $buf       close $fpt  }

Okay thank you! So one cannot avoid a modification of the data like this for the .dat file?

The key-file can be then  imported to HyperMesh?

Again, thank you for your help!

Show your .dat file? your 'key-file'? LS-DYNA key ?

This is my dat-file (coordinates of points) which I would really like to import into HyperMesh with the least amount of effort/ data conversion...

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Only Y-coordinate ?

 A2_NASA_SC2_0712_t2c11,01.dat (y-Koordinaten des Ausgangs-Profils 'NASA_SC2_0712_t2c11,03.dat' mit Faktor 0,998323 multipliziert)	 1,000000	-0,010655 0,993734	-0,009000 0,983123	-0,006276 0,971048	-0,003295 0,957627	-0,000136 0,943066	0,003118 0,927606	0,006405 0,911494	0,009675 0,894934	0,012885

Maybe all z coords are zero

Try this proc :  

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Exactly, all z coords = 0.

Perfect, that picture shows the result I'm looking for.

Sorry for asking, but how should I apply the tcl file with my dat to import the data into HyperMesh?

Again, thank you all very much for the excellent support!

Regards

Here's complet script based on Tinh's script:

 proc p_ReadCloudPointFile {FilePath} { 	set fpt [open $FilePath] 	set buf [string map {, .} [read $fpt]] 	close $fpt 	set lines [split $buf \n] 	foreach line $lines { 		if {[scan $line '%f %f' x y]==2} { 			*createnode $x $y 0 		} 	} }  set fileTypes { 		{'Data'		{.dat} } 		{'All files'	  *    } } 	 set file_name  [tk_getSaveFile -filetypes $fileTypes -title 'DataFile' ] p_ReadCloudPointFile $file_name;

Thank you so much! I just ran the script in HyperMesh and it worked /emoticons/default_smile.png' srcset='/emoticons/smile@2x.png 2x' title=':)' width='20' /> 

am facing the following problem, i couldnt import my iges file into my hypermesh 2017 version, please suggest me the solution for this problem.

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Try another format, like STEP, Parasolid,...