Improvement suggestions

Victor

@Mishal. The internal solver supports all the built-in beam section shapes with Dynamic Response 3D, but not 2D. You can use 3D instead of 2D for everything except plane strain.

LHartley

Would it be possible to import an array of node coordinates from a csv or txt file?

Victor

@LHartley You can do that with the .XYZ file format. It's a CSV file with the 3 coordinates for each node on each line.

LHartley

Thank you very much Victor - I will look into this feature - it will save me a lot of time.
One more question if I may - is there also a similar feature to allocate component types between node arrays as in:-
1-2, 2-3, etc = component type 1, 3-4,4-5, etc = component 2.

Thanks

Victor

@LHartley For an existing mesh? Not that I know of. the .XYZ format is also for a new mesh, so the nodes won't be linked to existing elements.

You can modify an existing mesh for both component assignments and node coordinates fairly easily with a Python script using these methods:

mw.set_node_x(node_id, value)
mw.set_node_y(node_id, value)
mw.set_node_z(node_id, value)
mw.set_element_component(element_id, component)

LHartley

@Victor Thank you once again Victor - I will have a tinker with this next week

disla

Allow for plasticity on ccx when the laminated shells are isotropic. It now gives a warning.




*PLASTIC + *SHELL SECTION,COMPOSITE

This can be useful to add integration points to isotropic shell elements and solve Plastic behavior accurately.

disla

Hi Victor,

The attached file ,originally posted in the Prepomax forum by Agazzotti , is imported in MECWAY as a unique part. (Prepomax keep it separated as four parts). Keeping the different parts separated allows to assign easily different meshing algorithms and materials each one.

I remember someone requesting to be able to select different parts on the step geometry to mesh separately but I can’t find the post. I would like to support that request.

Before the import starts, ask if the user wants parts separately or import as a unique part.
Separate parts combined with the actual gmsh capabilities becomes an interesting meshing option.

disla

Hi Victor,

I think it would be interesting to have a button that opens the temporary folder where the .frd .dat,... are generated. They are files that contain relevant information and it is a long path and that changes in each analisys.

Victor

@disla OK

disla

Thank you very much Victor.