Element Location and attached Nodes
Altair EmployeeHi,
I am using an imported mesh in HyperMesh. I would like to define boundaries based on faces locations. Firstly, I create faces using the following:
*createmark elements 1 'displayed'
*findfaces elements 1
This seems to have created extra elements (initial element count was 61, and after this command 307).
When I export the modified mesh as an .inp file, the new elements do not seem to appear (reading the .inp file in Notepad shows that there are only 61 elements). Therefore, I am unable to see what nodes are attached to each of the elements and can't locate the elements.
Would anyone be able to help me?
I am just looking for anyway to get location information about elements that were created when the faces where created.
Thanks
Then I would like to know
After I create faces on this mesh, I would like to be able to read in the new mesh
When I export an Abaqus type mesh (.inp) from HyperMesh
Answers
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here is a snippet to get the nodes of the faces... try it and make sure that it does what you need.
hm_createmark elems 1 'advanced' 'displayed';
*findfaces elems 1;
hm_createmark nodes 1 'by comp name' '^faces'
set nodeList [ hm_getmark nodes 1 ];
foreach nodeId $nodeList {
puts $nodeId;
}0 -
Great,
Thanks for that!
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