I’m using PrePoMax v2.3.0, when I re-import the “inp” file that exported by the same version PrePoMax, an error window popup, and the " Initial Conditons" and " Centrifugal Load" are lost.
This is the Setup when I export the “inp” file. You can see there is an Initial Conditons setup named “Temperature-Temp” and “Centrifugal Load-Rotation” under the Loads of Step-Static.
This is the setup when I re-import the “inp” file. You can see that the Initial Conditons “Temperature-Temp” and Loads “Centrifugal Load-Rotation” are lost.
If I remember correctly, the importer is not as up to date as the exporter. Also, there are certain keywords that do not have an easy way to be implemented.
Currently I am using a fortran program to generate inp files according to the format exported by ProPoMax. Sometimes I need to import to ProPoMax to see the setup. So will this be fixed in the furture? @Matej
The .inp file support is added to export the model to the CalculiX solver. The importer is not needed for this process, so it is not developed in sync. There is also a problem that some features in PrePoMax, as Surface traction, are not supported in the .inp files and, as such, cannot be recreated.
So the .inp importer is developed based on the users’ needs or requests only.
1.Are the N1,N2,N3 and X,Y,Z right?
2. Why need SetEquationFromValue? Not like:
cenLoad.Z=double.Parse(recordDL[8]);
cenLoad.RotationalSpeed2 read only?
else if (loadingType.ToUpper() == "CENTRIF")
{
//Following line for centrifugal loading:
//Element number or element set label.
//CENTRIF
//rotational speed square($ \omega^2$)
//Coordinate 1 of a point on the rotation axis
//Coordinate 2 of a point on the rotation axis
//Coordinate 3 of a point on the rotation axis
//Component 1 of the normalized direction of the rotation axis
//Component 2 of the normalized direction of the rotation axis
//Component 3 of the normalized direction of the rotation axis
//Element_Set - Body, CENTRIF, 98596, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0
//MessageBoxes.ShowInfo(lines[i]);
name = step.Loads.GetNextNumberedKey("Centrif");
//
CentrifLoad cenLoad = new CentrifLoad(name, regionName, RegionTypeEnum.ElementSetName,
false, false, false, 0);
//cenLoad.RotationalSpeed2.SetEquationFromValue(double.Parse(recordDL[3]));
cenLoad.N1.SetEquationFromValue(double.Parse(recordDL[3]));
cenLoad.N2.SetEquationFromValue(double.Parse(recordDL[4]));
cenLoad.N3.SetEquationFromValue(double.Parse(recordDL[5]));
cenLoad.X.SetEquationFromValue(double.Parse(recordDL[6]));
cenLoad.Y.SetEquationFromValue(double.Parse(recordDL[7]));
cenLoad.Z.SetEquationFromValue(double.Parse(recordDL[8]));
//MessageBoxes.ShowInfo("[bj] recordDL[8] =" + recordDL[8]);
//cenLoad.Z=double.Parse(recordDL[8]);
//MessageBoxes.ShowInfo("[bj] cenLoad.Z.SetEquationFromValue =" + cenLoad.Z.ToString());
//
step.AddLoad(cenLoad);
}
Probably no need to change the name to all captial.
Since line starts with ** is filtered out, need to find a way to read **name before the filter. This is not critical, another name is given by the code.
