Export all mesh, model and simulation settings/parameters into a file for comparison

Feature Requests
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Hi, when I’m busy getting a good setup for a simulation, I often need to fine-tune parameters to get the simulation done. To compare my modifications, I take all settings and parameters by hand into an Excel sheet to have a quick overview of what has been changed. It would be very nice to have an overview of the mesh settings, materials, surface behavior settings, etc. in a file that can be imported into Excel or any other type of document. It would also be nice if it were a format that can be used by Python scripts.
Looking forward to your reaction.
Kind regards,

Roland

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How about export to .inp file (input deck for the CalculiX solver) which can be opened in any text editor and has rather clear syntax ?

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There are just no mesh settings other than node coordinates and element connectivity.

However, PrePoMax also has a parameter editor where you can store parameters, use them for model definition, but also import and export:

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about the .inp I know. But all settings for meshing is for me very important as well

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now I have to this by hand. When a continue a week later I don’t know what modifcations are done. So I would like to log this in a convinient way.

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This is what I’m currently doing. It’s time-consuming. :frowning:

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May be is a .json format an option

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Adding such a tool is somewhat difficult since all users will have different ideas of what to copy/save. But I can look into copying the entire property grind to the clipboard. Would that be useful?

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This could also fall under basic report generation (for the preprocessing part) - export all the model settings to a file. However, a button to copy all settings from the property grid would also make sense. Something like the current “Reset all” button:

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But the question is if it should copy the names too (copying only the values would help quickly fill the template).

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If you can extract all settings of the compleet set-up then I can filter with python.
The .pmx is binary, you can’t filter the settings out of it.

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I think for most users, a copy of all rows and both columns would be the most appropriate.