Reflect Results About A Coordinate Plane?

rwhirley

Hello Mecway users,

I have been away from Mecway for a few years, and the capability in v12 with ccx is amazing vs. v4. Great work Victor!

Now my question: for making presentations to semi-engineering audiences I often like to "reflect" my symmetric model to show results on what appears to be a full part. Other software packages offer this by simply reflecting the current model (and displayed results) across a coordinate plane. You can then reflect a half-symmetry model to create a display of the full part. You can also reflect a quarter symmetry model once to get a half-model, then do it again to see the full part.

Is there a way to accomplish the same thing in Mecway v12 with ccx v2.16 results?

Victor

Not in Mecway, sorry. Though you could use CGX to open the .frd file and the copy command with the mir option to display the solution in CGX. I haven't actually tried this but it looks like it should work.

To access the .frd file more easily, turn on Tools -> Options -> CalculiX -> Working directory Same as the .liml file before solving, or go hunting in %temp%/MecwayInstance?????????/ccx otherwise.

Sergio

@rwhirley , you can postprocess the results and do the simmetry using Paraview.

rwhirley

Thanks for the suggestions. I'll try doing it with CGX and with Paraview.