Coordinate systems and reference points no longer appears under results:
Also selected history outputs are no longer highlighted there.
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well, now it works… need to check what i have done wrong…
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Okay, both phenomena seems to occur only when a preload is applied to the model:
Test.pmx (110.6 KB)
I can confirm the bug on a model with no preload. I will check it.
Here the problem is the following. When oppening a .pmx file PrePoMax checks if the mesh in the .pmx file is the same as the mesh in the FE model. If it is, it applies geometrical edges, colors and some other properties from the FE model to the results. It also copies node sets, surfaces, RPs and coordinate systems. If the meshes do not match, nothing is transfered from the FE model.
I will change the behaviour of how the .pmx file is opened if it is opened from the menu File → Open or from the analysis (Analysis → Results or the Monitor form).
In the first case the same criteria will apply since the user migh open a .frd file that has nothing to do with the current FE model.
In the second case I will assume the resuts are produced by the current FE model, so the RPs and coordinate systems will be copied.
The problem remains with the node sets, surfaces and features that depend on them, as are histroy outputs (for the highlight). When using tie adjust or pretension on solid meshes the numebring of nodes and faces is kept the same but when using shells, the node numbering is not the same anymore since one node is expanded into multiple nodes. As I remember there is a results file that records how this exansions renumbers the elements or nodes but it only outputs the expansion into one layer of elements. It there are multiple layers this is not recorded anymore.
The problem is how to determine if it is OK to copy the node set from the FE model or not. And to determine this robustly. I think it is better not to show any highlight than to show a wrong highlight to the user.
Thank you for the explanation. So you will remove highlighting history outputs completely? that is really disappointing… Is there a chance to keep highlighting for solid elements and remove it just for shells?
No, no, it will stay as it is, but for shells, it will not work.
