How can I assign a temperature boundary condition to a set of nodes in Simlab?
Hello experts!
I am trying to solve a steady state heat transfer problem in a solid using Simlab and Optistruct as a solver. I have a simple meshed part as shown below:
and I want to impose a prescribed temperature (e.g. 500 K) on the nodes selected (orange points on the image above). However, Simlab gives only two options (file:///C:/Program%20Files/Altair/2022.3/SimLab/hwx/help/SimLab/english/topics/analysis/ThermalTemperature.htm):
- Temperature on faces/edges
- Distributed temperature table
The second option seems to solve my problem, but I need to know the nodal coordinates of the nodes, as shown below:
or nodes IDs, as shown below:
When I select the nodes, I can see the list of nodes with their IDs:
Thus, I can manually enter 336 node IDs and their value, one by one. This can be a challenging task, even for a small problem like mine. Thus, the questions are:
- Can I export the list of selected nodes in Simlab? This is because the value can be assigned more quickly in a spreadsheet and then imported into Simlab.
- Is there any way within Simlab to assign a temperature to the selected nodes directly, as in many other CAE software?
