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2. body b1 s1 s2 will look for the missing surfaces and if necessary create them if all lines between the corner points of s1 and s2 are defined the result is the creation of body b1 Or for example body s1 s2 s3 s4 s5 will create a body and a new name for it The new name is triggered by the 23 sign Here the body is based on 5 surfaces If the surfaces are not connected the body is not mesh able 8 5 call call lt parameters gt This keyword is used to allow the user to control his own functionality in the file userFunction c The data structures for the mesh and datasets are available The default function calculates the hydrodynamic stresses with the command call hydro See User Functions for details 8 6 cntr cntr lt pnt nod gt Defines a new center point or node This command is intended for batch mode See also qent for the cursor controlled command 8 7 comp comp lt set gt u d e This keyword is used to add all entities to the specified set see seta which de pend on the already included entities u up or to include all entities necessary to describe the already included entities d down For example the set lines is made from lines and should also include all de pendent points comp lines do Or the set lines should also include all surfs and bodies which depend on the lines comp lines up In some cases
3. C 3 Spherg C 4 Sphere Volume This document is the description of CalculiX GraphiX cgx This program is designed to generate and display finite elements FE and results coming from CalculiX CrunchiX ccx If you have any problems using cgx this document should solve them If not you might send an email to the author 3 The Con cept and File Format sections give some background on functionality and mesher capabilities The Getting Started section describes how to run the verification examples you should have obtained along with the code of the program You might use this section to check whether you installed CalculiX correctly Then a detailed overview is given of the menu and all the available keywords in al phabetical order in the Menu and Commands sections respectively Finally the User s Manual ends with the appendix and some references used while writing the code 2 Concept This program uses the openGL library for visualization and the glut library 2 for window management and event handling This results in very high speed if a hardware accelerated openGL library is available and still high speed for software rendering MesaGL 1 The cgx has pre and post processor capabilities It is able to generate and display beam shell and brick elements in its linear and quadratic form In addition it can display but not create pentahedra and tetrahedra elements The built in mesher creates a structured mesh bas
4. L001 L003 L002 L004 GSUR A002 BLEND L002 L006 L005 L007 GSUR A003 BLEND L005 L009 L008 LOOA GSUR A005 BLEND L008 LOOI LOO1 LOOJ ELTY all QU4 C 3 Sphere Figure 12 Segment of a Sphere PNT py 0 00000 PNT pi 1 00000 PNT P001 0 70711 PNT P003 0 00000 PNT P006 0 70711 PNT P008 0 00000 PNT POOC 0 70711 PNT POOK 0 70711 PNT POOL 0 00000 PNT POON 0 00000 1 00000 0 00000 0 00000 0 00000 0 50000 0 70711 0 00000 0 70711 0 00000 1 00000 104 0 00000 0 00000 0 70711 1 00000 0 50000 0 70711 0 00000 0 00000 0 00000 0 00000 LINE LINE LINE LINE LINE LINE LINE LINE LINE LINE GSUR GSUR LEND GSUR GSUR ELTY C 4 Sphere Volume NT NT LINE LINE LINE LINE LINE LINE LINE LINE LINE GSUR GSUR GSUR GSUR GSUR GBOD ELTY P P P P P P P P L001 L002 L003 L004 L006 L008 LOOA LOOC LOOG LOOJ A005 A002 A006 A004 py pl P006 P008 POOC POOK POOL POON L001 L002 L003 L004 L005 LOOA LOOC LOOG LOOJ A001 A002 A006 A004 A003 B001 pi P001 POOL 8 P001 P003 POOL pi P006 POOL 8 P006 P008 POOL P001 P006 POOC P003 P008 POOL p1 POOK POOL 8 POOK POON POOL P006 POOK POOC P008 POON POOL o 8 8 8 BLEND L003 LOO1 L006 B begin appendix L002 L006 L004 L008 BLEND L003 LOOG LOOA BLEND L004 LOOG LOOC LOOJ all qu4 00000 00000
5. elem 1 1 2 3 4 qu4 creates a shell element with four nodes 8 15 elty elty lt set gt be2 be3 tr3 tr3u tr6 qu4 gt qu8 he8 he8f he8i he8r he20 he20r This keyword is used to assign a specific element type to a set of entities see section Element Types in the appendix The element name is composed of the following parts The leading two letters define the shape be beam tr triangle qu quadrangle he hexahedra then the number of nodes and at last an attribute describing the mathematical formulation or other features u unstructured mesh r reduced integration i incompatible modes f fluid ele ment for ccx If the element type is omitted the assignment is deleted If all parameters are omitted the actual assignments are posted elty will print only the sets with assigned elements Multiple definitions are pos sible For example elty all deletes all element definitions If the geometry was already meshed the mesh will NOT be deleted If the mesh command is executed again after new assign ments has taken place additional elements will be created elty all he20 29 assigns 20 node brick elements to all bodies in the set all elty part1 he8 redefines that definition for all bodies in the set part1 elty part2 qu8 assigns 8 node shell elements to all surfaces in set part2 8 16 enq en
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7. RETURN w n p This keyword is used to define a new center point or node by pressing n or p when the mouse pointer is at the position of a node or a point It is also possible to measure distances between two pixels on the screen Just press the key w on the positions of the two pixels The distance is calculated in the scale of the displayed geometry AT o 8 57 qcut qcut RETURN q n p This keyword is used to define a cutting plane trough elements to visualize internal results see Figure 4 The plane is defined by picking three nodes or points The menu option Show Elements With Light b will display the whole model again and will delete the plane See also cut for the command line function LC39 STRESS Tim 13 000000 Entity Mises 33e 03 54e 01 max min 21e 02 98e 02 74e 02 51e 02 27e 02 04e 02 380e 02 57e 02 33e 02 10e 02 86e 02 63e 02 39e 02 16e 02 92e 02 69e 02 46e 02 22e 02 386e 01 51e 01 17e 01 NON ORPRPRPRNNNNW WD BP BBB BRO WR 82e 01 latfmtmf2 frd Figure 4 qcut A section through a model defined by three nodes 8 58 qdel qdel RETURN w Pe PEP PELPPPEP PSI b 17S 1 L h q This keyword is used to delete entities see also del Higher entities depending ones will be deleted to To delete more than one entity w
8. nodes are projected to target surfaces The correction will use a circular track defined by the corner nodes and the midside node With the parameter lin the corrected position is halfway between the corner nodes for all inner nodes Nodes on the surface are not affected by the lin option The gen option will generate midside nodes for linear elements like he8 or te4 The rem option will remove midside nodes from the element formulation but the nodes are not deleted The nodes are stored in a new set called delete and the user might Zap this set 8 38 min min lt value gt This keyword is used to define the lower value in the scale in the menu area see Figure 1 8 39 minus minus n e pe 2 Ig p 2g TL sh lt set gt This keyword is used to remove entities of a set from the screen see also plus The following entities are known Nodes n Elements e Points p Lines 1 Surfaces s Bodies b Nurb Surfaces S Nurb Lines L and Shapes sh Only the set which was used to display the entities can be used to remove them 8 40 move move lt set gt scal lt fx gt lt fy gt lt fz gt lt pnt gt tra lt dx gt lt dy gt lt dz gt rot lt p1 gt lt p2 gt lt alfa gt Prad x y z p lt pnt gt lt dr gt mir lt P1 gt lt P2 gt This keyword is used to move nodes or points
9. COMPACT must be omitted CAD interfaces might use this functionality 8 45 nurs nurs lt name char9 gt DEFINE COMPACT lt u deg gt lt v deg gt gt lt u npnt gt lt v npnt gt lt u nknt gt lt v nknt gt CONTROL lt u index gt lt v index gt lt pnt gt lt x y z gt gt lt weight gt KNOT lt U gt lt V gt lt index gt lt value gt END lt gt lt setname containing surfaces gt This keyword is used to define a nurbs shape Surfaces might use nurbs to define the interior geometry There are two possible ways of definition The first is using predefined point names and the second is by specifying the coordinates explicitly When the coordinates are defined then the parameter COMPACT Al must be used as shown above but when point names are used then COM PACT must be omitted CAD interfaces might use this functionality REMARK The knot vector has to have a multiplicity of degree 1 There is also a small nurbs building capability in cgx It is possible to use existing surfaces with 4 edges which do not already reference a given nurbs The new nurbs will follow the Coons algorithm but can be modified by moving the control points The surfaces must be stored in a set For example nurs surfaceSet will define nurbs for all surfaces stored in the set surfaceSet This nurbs can be used to define the interiour of other surfaces This is
10. around the vector v The value has to be in degree were 90 degree is orthogonal For example send nodes abq mpc 4 1 0 0 will assign the nodes of the set nodes to the user subroutine umpc and will force them to rotate by 4 degree around the x axis Two files are produced The one with the equations has to be included in the model definition section and the boundary file in the step section The special purpose parameter sur will write the surfaces of the mesh ei ther in abaqus format for the SURFACE command or in frd format as shell elements with a dataset describing the normals For example send top abq sur will write the elements in set top together with the face identifier of the free element faces In addition it is possible to define so called cyclic symmetry equations These equations are used when just a section of a rotation symmetric part like a disk is modeled These equations force the two cutting planes of such a section to move exactly equal in the cylindrical system If the coordinate system of the displacements for the solver is rectangular xyz then the syntax is send dep indep nas cycmpc rx12 cl Here dep is the set containing the nodes of the dependent side These nodes will be replaced by the solver with the independent nodes from the set indep In this case the equations will be written in the nastran format nas in nas tran called MPC The parameter rx12 defines the
11. line pl p2 cp 4 needs a center point cp The radius changes linear from pl to p2 if the center point cp is excentric The name is chosen automatically triggered by the char acter The spline line 11 pl p2 seq 4 needs a so called sequential set seq use the command seqaj to define such a set This set seq stores the spline points between the end points in the right order The spline function is described in 14 Usually a line is defined inter actively with qlin 36 8 32 mata mata lt Material Nr gt lt set gt This keyword is used to assign a material number to a set of elements Cur rently this feature is only useful if you use the NASTRAN format The material number is a numeric attribute assigned to each element of the mesh and will be stored with the mesh in the frd format or nastran format see send For example mata 7 part assigns the material number 7 to all elements in the set part Elements can have just one material number The default number is 1 These numbers will be saved with the mesh if the database is written to the file system with the command send all frd or send all nas If the frd file is used later the material number s are available immediately 8 33 mats mats This keyword is used to get an overview of all material numbers defined New sets will be created for all material numbers of elements This feature is usually used if a m
12. lt line gt lt line gt gt lt line gt up to 14 lines This keyword is used to define extend or redefine a combined line Iemb Com bined lines are necessary if the edge of a surface should be made of more than one line Usually the user does not create lemb s directly They are created automatically during the process of defining a surface with the command qsur 35 There is no limitation to the number of lines in a combined line However with one command not more than 14 lines can be specified at a time To specify more than that or to extend an existing lcmb a modify command has to follow For example Icmb U260 U249 U248 U247 U243 U237 U236 U231 U219 defines the lemb U260 with 8 lines and their orientation in the lemb The following command lcmb U260 ADD U218 U217 extends the lemb U260 by two additional lines 8 30 length length lt set gt This keyword is used to calculate the length of all lines stored in a set 8 31 line line lt name char lt 9 gt lt p1 gt lt p2 gt lt cplseq gt lt div gt This keyword is used to define or redefine a line A line depends on points A line can only be defined if the necessary points are already defined There are three different types of lines available The straight line line 11 pl p2 4 is defined by its name 11 the name could have up to 8 characters by the points pl and p2 and optionally by the division The arc
13. this format consists of a collection of commands ex plained in the section Commands and it is mainly used to store geo metrical information like points lines surfaces and bodies But it can also be used to define a batch job which uses the available commands e step format r reverse engineered based on some cad files Only points and certain types of lines are supported currently e stl format r w this format describes a shape using only triangles see the read command to handle edges generated by NETGEN Common CAD formats are supported by stand alone interfaces which translate into fbd commands The following file formats are available to write a mesh and certain boundary conditions e Abaqus which is also used by the CalculiX solver ccx e Ansys most boundary conditions available Code_Aster small subset of boundary conditions available Samcef small subset of boundary conditions available duns a free cfd code 5 e isaac a free cfd code 6 e OpenFOAM a free cfd code 7 only 8 noded brick elements are sup ported e Nastran most boundary conditions available e tochnog a free fem code 8 only 8 noded brick elements are supported The following solver input file formats can be read to check the mesh sets and certain boundary conditions e Abaqus this is also used by the CalculiX solver ccx e Netgen read Netgen native format vol The following file formats are avail
14. ARATE ASST UE A S 77 Li A UT gee Lf ee LL LLE Zi SS me UI FEY S Perry Hl SS ne Mii PTT TT haa i ZI Cy GH tjy LLU UTG hh WKS RS V L WA A NY SS Y Wu WN S NS NS CHUUNIN Figure 14 Airfoil for cfd codes 05000 0 00770 0 02500 0 00420 0 01250 0 00230 0 25000 0 00000 0 24688 0 00308 O 24375 0 00427 0 23750 0 00565 0 23125 0 00653 O 22500 0 00730 O 21250 0 00875 O 20000 0 00993 0 18750 0 01070 0 17500 0 01115 0 15000 0 01120 O 12500 0 01043 0 10000 0 00917 0 07500 0 00750 0 107 00000 00000 00000 00000 00000 00000 00000 00000 00000 00000 00000 00000 00000 00000 00000 00000 00000 W fd W od go T fo Od fd ie To fd f a a fd eo kg kg fd TT Ta a a a G a a a a a a FU H 2422222422422 2422422422422 2422422422 242422242 2422 2422 2422 2422 242 2422242224222 2242242224224 Cr ARA P015 P016 P017 P019 P1 P2 p3 p4 PO1A PO1B P046 P059 P049 PO5A P04C PO4D POSC PO4G PO4H PO4I PO5D PO4L PO4M POSF PO4P PO4R PO4T PO5G PO4W PO4X P04Z POSH P052 P054 P056 P058 POSI POSJ POSL POSM POSN PO5S PO5V POON PO2M PO3B 05000 02500 01250 00000 50000 50000 50000 50000 18162 18180 27025 26599 25144 35589
15. S00X S002 SOOP L003 LOOC LOOE L004 LO5F LOSS LO5C L006 LOO7 L008 LOOG LOON LO3R LOOT LO3S LO4V LO4W LO4X L04Z L050 L052 L054 L056 L058 L059 LO5A LO5D LO5V 0 23405 0 24536 0 24464 1 00000 1 00000 pnt pnt pnt pnt pnt pnt pnt pnt pnt pnt pnt pnt pnt PO1A P019 PO3B P052 P058 POSF PO1A PO3E P052 PO2M PO3C POON PO3P PO1A P052 910 PO1A P019 S006 120 P019 PO1B S007 120 p4 P 1 150 P2 PO5L 204 POSL POSS 912 Pi PO5J 120 PO1B P019 P058 POSS PO3B P052 PO5V P058 P054 P056 P019 POSV PO3C P056 POSN P054 910 910 910 210 SOOW SOOR 210 SooS p4 P059 204 P059 P054 POSF PO5F P059 PO5F PO5H P056 P052 POSF Pi 2 P059 PO5G PO5H P058 PO5G 912 912 04 SOOT 120 120 912 912 p3 PO5I 130 PO5I p4 120 PO5J P2 130 PO56 PO5N 130 0 02029 0 00794 0 00400 0 00000 0 00000 POOA P017 P049 PO4G P04Z PO5D P009 P002 PO4D POOT PO4R P004 POOR 130 120 120 150 POOC P016 P046 PO4H PO4X POSC P008 P000 PO4C POOV PO4T P003 POOS 109 POOE P015 PO4L PO4I PO4W PO5A P007 POOP PO3B POOW P054 PO3E PO2M POOG P014 PO4M P056 P054 P059 P006 PO3P POOX 0 00000 0 00000 0 00000 0 00000 0 00000 POOI POOJ POOK POOL P019 P013 P012 P011 P010 PO1B PO4P PO3C P005 POON P00Z PO1B LINE LINE LINE LINE LINE LINE LINE LINE LINE LINE LINE LINE LINE LINE LINE LINE LINE LCMB
16. The parameter pres is used to assign pressure values to element faces For example send surf abq pres 0 05 will assign the pressure value 0 05 to all element faces in set surf If a dataset with nodal values is available it is also possible to use this values instead of using a uniform value for all faces For example send surf abq pres Ic1 el will specify the dataset nr 1 and the entity nr 1 to be used instead of a uni form value The parameter film is used to assign free stream temperatures and ther mal heat coefficients to element faces It works similar to the pres option For example send surf abq film 1200 0 5 will assign the film temperature of 1200 and the coefficient 0 5 to all element faces in set surf If datasets with nodal values are available it is also possible to use this values instead of using a uniform value for all faces For example send surf abq film ds1 el 0 5 will specify the dataset nr 1 and the entity nr 1 to be used for the tempera ture instead of a uniform value or send surf abq rad dsl el lc1 e2 64 will specify also the dataset nr 1 with the entity nr 2 to be used for the film coefficients instead of a uniform value The parameter rad is used to assign a sink temperatures and the emissiv ity to element faces It works similar to the pres option For example send surf abq rad 1200 0 5 will assign the sink temperature of 1200 and the emissivity 0 5 to all
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18. 515 8A1 Values KEY NAME MENU ICTYPE ICIND1 ICIND2 IEXIST ICNAME Where KEY NAME MENU ICTYPE 5 Entity name to be used in the menu 1 Type of entity 84 scalar vector with 3 components BB NHR matrix 12 vector with 3 amplitudes and 3 phase angles in degree ICIND1 sub component index or row number ICIND2 column number for ICTYPE 4 IEXIST 0 data are provided 1 data are to be calculated by predefined functions not used ICNAME Name of the predefined calculation not used ALL calculate the total displacement if ICTYPE 2 This record must be repeated for each entity 4 Type of Record and more not used This record will be necessary in combination with the request for predefined calculations So far all types of predefined calculations are done by default Format 1X 12 215 2013 Values KEY IRECTY NUMCPS LSTCPS I I 1 NUMCPS Where KEY 6 IRECTY Record variant identification number NUMCPS Number of components LSTCPS For each variant component the position of the corresponding component in the attribute definition The following records are data records and the format is repeated for each node In case of material dependant data REMARK Implemented only for NMATS 1 first line Short Format 1X 12 415 Long Format 1X 12 110 315 Values KEY NODENR NMATS Where KEY 1 NODENR Node number NMATS Number of different materials at this node unused second and followin
19. Delete all previous assignments with e elty all and assign new types with e eltylall he20 If a mesh is already defined type 2 e del mesh and mesh again with 27 e mesh all Then choose the menu entity Viewing Show Elements With Light to see the mesh lighted Lastly export the mesh in the calculix solver format with 2 e send all abq With the send command it is also possible to write boundary conditions loads and equations to files The equations are useful to glue parts together It is advisable to save your work from time to time without exiting the pro gram This is done with the command 3 e Save You leave the program either with e exit or with e quit Exit will write all geometry to an fbd file and if a file of this name exists already then the extension of this file will be renamed from fbd to fbb quit closes the program without saving A solver input file can be written with the help of an editor emacs nedit etc If you write a ccx command file then include the mesh the boundary conditions etc with the ccx command INCLUDE After you finished your input file for the solver ccx you might read it by calling the program again with cgx c solverfile inp 10 for a final check All predefined sets are av
20. Element Face ME Dependent Node Four Independent Nodes At The Element Corners Figure 8 Dependent node on element face to create a connection 91 B 7 How to define loads and constrains Loads and constrains are not saved in any database They are just created and written to a file with the send command But the sets which are needed for the definition are stored together with the geometry if you type the save command Of course the sets must have been defined based on geometry and not based on mesh entities like nodes because mesh entities are not saved with the save command You must know that geometry sets know also their mesh entities after a mesh command If you store your commands to write the boundary conditions in a file you can easily repeat them by just reading this command file see read Several types of loads can be applied That is forces pressure thermal heat coefficients and radiation etc For unsupported loads write a set of element node or face labels parameter names and apply the desired load to that set in the solver input file Other boundary conditions like single point constrains for structural thermal and fluid calculations can be written The sliding condition parameter slide were nodes are bound to the element faces to which they belong can be used for structural calculations or for fluid calculations In the later case it forces the flow to follow the surface of the ele
21. New points will be created on this line which in turn are used to redefine the selected line as a sequence line which uses the new spline points Sequences can be shown with the prnt sq command Node sequences can be written to a file and read again with the commands send seqname fbd and read seqname fbd 8 72 qshp gt qshp RETURN mPa Pp eee 1 q This keyword is used to define a shape A shape needs 3 points or nodes points at their location will be generated and used for its definition The points are selected with the p nodes n key After the points are selected it will be generated by a g keystroke The shape can be assigned to a surface by selecting the surface with the s key The shape will then define the interiour of this surface 8 73 qspl gt qspl RETURN w s q This keyword is used to split one or more lines at a certain position can also be done with qlin A point is created at the splitting position the original line is deleted and two new lines will appear instead All lines running through the selected location will be split at once and the newly created splitting points will be merged to one if they are closer to each other than defined by gtol To split a line move the mouse pointer over the line and press the s key Press q to quit the command It is also possible to measure distances between two pixels on the screen Just press
22. OpenFOAM 1 3 format it will create 2 new files owner and neighbour That is it B 15 Remarks Concerning Code Aster From Paul CARRICO 2005 02 12 Brief presentation of CODE ASTER Code Aster is an implicit solver under GPL licence from the French company EDF Electricit de France Code Aster and its documentations is downloadable at the following address http www code aster org NOTA the documentation is in French at the moment but many users are translating it in English and in German The following list is not exhaustive but it briefly presents the capabilities of the solver e Mechanical modeling Code aster allows linear and non linear calculations in static dynamic acoustic etc Many mechanical laws are implemented in the solver such as damage fatigue creep viscosities elastic plastic etc For isotropic and non isotropic materials orthotropic ones for example Because of EDF fields the materials used in Code Aster are essentially Metallic ones and Geo material one but there are probably some others e Thermal and thermomechanical calculations The Thermal solver per forms linear and non linear calculations for pure thermal but also for thermomechanical simulations e Input interface EFICAS is the input interface for coding the input file but it s not a pre processing as you can find in many commercial code e Tools Many tools are provided with Code Aster HOMARD for mesh refinement GIBI and GMSH f
23. Tips and Hints and Known Problems 5 Program Parameters usage cgx al b bg c duns2d duns3d isaac2d isaac3d foam ng step st1 gt filename ccxfile a automatic build mode geometry file derived from a 11 cad file is expected b build mode geometry file in fbd format is expected bg background suppress creation of graphic output otherwhise as b geometry command file must be provided c read an solver input file ccx Abaqus duns2d read duns result files 2D duns3d read duns result files 3D isaac2d read isaac result files 2D isaac3d read isaac result files 3D foam read the OpenFOAM result directory structure ng read Netgen native format with surface domains step read an ascii step file points and lines only stl read an ascii stl file triangles v default read a result file in frd format and optional a solver input file ccx in addition which provides the sets and loads used in the calculation special purpose options mksets make node sets from DLOAD values setname _ lt value gt oldbias converts pre cgx_1 5 bias read forces the program to read the complete result file at startup If no option is provided then a result file frd is assumed see Result Format A file containing commands or geometric informations is assumed if the option b is specified Such a file will be created if you use exit or Save after you have interac
24. Tresca Stresses A 1 Program is not responding Dania a a A 2 During Meshing A 3 Program generates a segmentation fault B_Tips and Hints B 1 Creating a set of entities sc ss os s dd dr KAKA KG B 2 How to enquire node numbers and values at certain locations B 3 How to select only nodes on the surface B 4 How to generate a time history plot _ o B 5 How the mesh is related to the geometry B 6 How to connect independent meshes B 7 How to define loads and constrains B 8 How to map surface loads o se B 9 How to run cgx in batch mode aa tea disa daas B 10 How to deal with cad geometry B 11 How to check an input file for cex so sai e o o B 12 Remarks Concerning NETGEN s 2 4 oc k svd k ra B 13 Remarks Concerning Duns and Isaac sosse o B 14 Remarks Concerning OpenFOAM 0200 0 B 15 Remarks Concerning Code Aste oo o e B 16 Remarks Concerning Samcef oo o bead we os C Simple Examples C 5 Airfoil for cfd codes 1 Introduction Gil Dist pee mn Sad a C 2 Cylinder
25. a given node it will not remember it Therefore a body will only know about nodes which are not placed on surfaces lines or points A surface will only know about nodes which are not placed on lines or points And so on Therefore if you need the nodes on a surface and not only the ones just inside 90 the surface then create a set with this surface and do a comp set do This will add the lines and points together with their nodes to the set On the other hand if you have only a node and you need the geometric entity in which the node is embedded you might also type comp set do B 6 How to connect independent meshes Sometimes it is advisable to glue independent meshes together instead of trying to create one big seamless mesh Or you just want to create a contact formulation were you know that no separation will happen In this situations you might use equations also called mpc s which connect one dependent node with one or more independent nodes The independent side should be coarser than the dependent side to avoid gaps in the connection See the command send in combination with the option areampc how to create such connections Sliding and fixed contact as well as press fits can be modelled The necessary sets should be defined based on geometry not on the mesh In this case the definition will be stored with the save or exit command and can be used after the next program call
26. about the correct orientation of the lines and the number of edges is not limmited If automatic name generation is desired then use instead of a name 8 26 gtol gtol lt geometric tol gt This keyword is used to enquire the default geometric tolerance gtol 34 Or it is used to set the default geometric tolerance gtol value The merg command will recognize points or nodes as equally located when the distance between them is less than gtol 8 27 hcpy hcpy ps xwd gif png make 1s clean def xwd This keyword creates a hardcopy in one of the above formats Default is xwd Use the program convert to convert to other formats if needed hepy ps will create a ps file hcpy make ls will bundle all ps files created in one file using the landscape ls format The ls parameter may be omitted A maximum of six pictures is placed on each page hepy clean will remove all hcpy files See also the commands text rot ds Imax and min which might be used in hcpy batch files These commands should be used in the shown order before using the hcpy command 8 28 help help This keyword prints a short overview of all commands 8 29 Icmb 1cmb lt name char lt 9 gt lt line gt lt line gt gt lt line gt up to 14 lines ADD
27. desired faces in a new set qadd and complete the set downwards comp Then add the nodes with plus n setname B 4 How to generate a time history plot So called time history plots can be created based on a previous displayed se quence of data sets see Toggle Dataset Sequence with the command graph 88 It is also possible to use only the command line For example edsle3 eds1210 e graph set t will produce a time history plot for the nodes stored in set over all loadcases from 1 to 10 for the entity nr 3 Or e graph set t DISP D1 will display the displacement in direction 1 for all loadcases For more details and other options look into the eraph command description 89 40 FR AAA AAA AE A TEA EE ON Lo Le Jig N Il o he e Z Oo F qa EL 48 g E E kz amp o oO F JA E Lo ER O Zz E 2 3 L JO 2 E gt L JO L JO i 1 i fi i i i o o o o o o o o o o o O O O O Oo o Oo Oo o O 00 N DO LO Y mM N S L Figure 7 example of a time history plot B 5 How the mesh is related to the geometry Very often you need the embedded nodes or elements of geometric entities to apply boundary conditions If you understand the underlying concept you will be able to get them more easily Geometric entities are the mothers of nodes and elements so to say and will remember them In turn if an entity is not the mother of
28. displacement system as rectangular r the rotational axis is x and the 12 defines the number of segments in 360 deg therefore the angle of the segment is 360 deg 12 If omit ted then the value is calculated for each node separate The c triggers the correction of the position of the dependent nodes to a position defined by the angle of the segment highly recommended u would prevent the correction The 1 will be the identifier for the equations if the format is nas nastran In case the format would be ans ansys then the 1 would be the number of the first equation No number is required for abq abaqus and calculix If the coordinate system of the displacements is cylindrical rtz then the example would be send dep indep nas cycmpc cx12 cl Only the r from rx12 is changed to c A thermal connection is cre ated with 66 send dep indep nas cycmpc tx c The thermal connection is triggered by the t See comments above for the single parameters Another useful method is to glue independent meshes together For this purpose the dependent nodes are tied to independent elements by equations Choose the finer mesh for the dependent side The equations are based on the shape functions of the element types For example send dep indep nas areampc 123 cl will connect the nodes in the set dep to element faces described by nodes in cluded in the set indep The set dep m
29. element faces in set surf If datasets with nodal values are available it is also possible to use this values instead of using a uniform value for all faces For example send surf abq rad lc1 el 1200 will specify the dataset nr 1 and the entity nr 1 to be used for the tempera ture instead of a uniform value or send surf abq rad lc1 el lc1 e2 will specify also the dataset nr 1 with the entity nr 2 to be used for the emissivity instead of a uniform value The parameter dflux is used to assign an energy stream to element faces It works similar to the pres option For example send surf abq dflux 0 5 will assign the flux of 0 5 to all element faces in set surf If a dataset with nodal values is available it is also possible to use this values instead of using a uniform value for all faces For example send surf abq dflux lc1 el will specify the dataset nr 1 and the entity nr 1 to be used instead of a uni form value The parameter cflux is used to assign an energy stream to nodes For example send surf abq cflux 0 5 will assign the flux of 0 5 to all nodes in set surf The parameter force is used to assign force values to nodes For example send nodes abq force 1 20 0 will assign the specified forces to all nodes of the set nodes The parameter mpc is used to create input for the user subroutine umpc which forces all nodes from set to rotate by an average value specified with 65 rotation
30. for nurb surfaces nurs S A for sets se and H for Shapes sh For example asgn p U will assign the character U as the leading character to all newly created names of points The automatically created names of geometric entities use 4 charac ters If all possible names with the chosen leading letter are in use then the next alphabetical letter is chosen as a leading letter so after PZZZ follows Q000 If no more letter follow then the amount of letters per name is increased The maximum number is 8 Each entity has its own name space Different entities might use the same name Remark Currently nurbs lines are automatically used to create splines sharing the same name Nurbs lines can not be used for other purposes than to be displayed and so far they can not be written to a file The unstructured mesher 13 uses the tree parameters alpha beta nadapt for mesh control Current default is 0 4 for alpha and beta and 4 for nadapt 22 8 3 bia bia lt line gt lt bias gt bia lt set gt lt bias gt mult div lt factor gt This keyword is used to define the bias of a single line or of a set of lines see qadd The bias defines the ratio of the length of the first element to the length of the last element For example bia all 4 5 will force a ratio in which the last element is 4 5 times bigger than the first one Real numbers are permitted since version 1 5 see also qbia T
31. found All dependent nodes are stored in dep ind BOU Analog to dep clo nr Created if CLOAD is found The nr counts the number of appearance dlo nr Created if DLOAD is found mpc nr Created if MPC is found rad nr Created if MPC is found flm nr Created if FILM is found cflx nr Created if CFLUX is found dflx nr Created if DFLUX is found tie 1 2 Created if TTE is found The set tiel stores the slave entities and tie2 the master The single sets which define the contact areas are linked together so if identified with the qenq command the referenced linked opposing set is listed in the xterm trans Created if TRANSFORM is found The name consists of the definition of the transformation elty Created for all known element types like C3D20 Check the element quality with Show Bad Elements or use eqall to set thresholds and plot to actually plot the affected elements The forces regard their referenced coordinate system TRANSFORM The values are automat ically transformed into the global cartesian system so that the vectors point in the correct direction 96 B 12 Remarks Concerning NETGEN In cases were the tet mesh comming from Netgen should be used it might be difficult to identify the regions for the be and loads The following will describe how to get them The native netgen format file extention vol will contain surface elements even if
32. gt ds lt nr gt e lt nr gt gt lt emis gt ds lt nr gt e lt nr gt 11 dflux lt load gt ds lt nr gt e lt nr gt cflux lt load gt force lt f1 gt lt f2 gt lt f3 gt sur send lt set gt duns isaac foam lt base type gt lt set gt gt cyclic lt set gt lt set gt tx ty tz rx ry rz gt ex cy 1 cz lt vx vy vz gt send lt dep set gt lt indep set gt nas abq ans cycmpc gt re ry rz gt 1 cx cy cz lt segments gt c u lt NR gt gt areampc lt dofs 1 6 t gt c u lt Nr gt gt areampc slide gt areampc presfit s lt value gt gt gap lt vx gt lt vy gt lt vz gt lt tol gt gt surfmap ds lt nr gt e lt nr gt This keyword is used to send data to the file system The following formats are known but not all options for all formats are fully supported so far The geometry format fbd send all fbd and a surface description with triangles stl send all stl Beside the stl file a so called edge file for NETGEN will be created if be2 60 elements are included in the mesh meshed lines The following mesh related formats are known Femview and CADfix frd Nastran nas Abaqus abq Ansys ans CodeAster ast Samcef sam Da
33. in cgx it needs written to a file for use with the solver Likewise several boundary conditions and loads can be written to files see also How to connect independent meshes How to define loads and constraints and send These files need to be added into the control file for later use in cex Additional commands material description and so on must be added with the help of an external editor After the analysis is completed the results can be visualized by calling the cgx program again in an independent session The program is primary controlled by the keyboard with individual commands for each function Only a subset of commands which are most important for post processing is also available through a pop up menu Shaded animations of static and dynamic results the common color plots and time history plots can be created Also a cut through the model can be done which creates a section and it is possible to zoom through the model Skilled users might include their own functions For example someone may need his own functions to manipulate the result data or he may need an interface to read or write his own results format see also call Both the pre and post processing can be automated in batch mode see also How to run cgx in batch mode 3 File Formats The following file formats are available to write w and or read r geometric entities e fbd format r w
34. is different Initially only the front faces are illuminated and the back faces are dark This is helpful to determine the orienta tion of the elements If you want to see all faces of the shell elements illuminated regardless of the orientation then use this option If you want to change the orientation use the command qfip 7 2 7 Toggle Model Edges Per default all free element edges are shown The user can remove show them with this option 7 2 8 Toggle Element Edges Per default just the free element edges are shown The user might add all edges to the structure with that option 16 7 2 9 Toggle Surfaces Volumes This switches the way each volume elements are displayed Either all faces of the elements or just the element faces on the surface of the structure are displayed Depending on the state of Toggle Culling Back Front either the faces pointing to the user or the faces pointing away are displayed The default is just to show the surface pointing to the user In the lower left corner of the drawing area see Figure 1 a character is printed indicating the program is in the surface mode s or in the volume mode v 7 2 10 Toggle Move Z Zoom Instead of zooming in with the help of the middle mouse button it is also possible to move a clipping plane through the structure to get a view of the inside The clipping plane is parallel to the screen and will be moved in the
35. mouse pointer over a point and press the key b begin To define just a straight line go to the end point and press g generate This point is also the starting point for the next line So no b is necessary for the next line If the line is a sequential line spline then the points of the sequence must be defined with the key t in the correct order but the last point must be selected with the key g If the line is an arc then the center point must be selected with the c key or one point on the line between the end points must be selected with the m key but the last point must be selected with the key g In case you need to split a line during the process you can do that by pressing the s key When you want to modify the length then pick an existing line with the key 1 and then the endpoint you want to move with the key p The displacement is requested and the point is moved in the direction of the line by the specified displacement The x key will transform the line into a straight line One quite special function is triggered by the e key exchange This allows to modify an existing combined line 1cmb which is used in surface or body definitions With that command a line or a line sequence in a lcmb can be exchanged by the previous generated line For example one edge of an already existing surface uses a lemb but the user wants to replace it by a spline then
36. necessary if tr3u ele ments unstructured triangles should be used and if the surface is not related to a given shape 8 46 ori ori lt set gt This keyword is used to trigger the orientation of the entities This is done automatically and it should never be necessary to use it manually 8 47 plot plot n e 1 gt p 1 1 1 s b S L sh 4 gt PaPa Ppi lv gt lt set gt w PE Pe Pe Pt Py ln This keyword is used to display the entities of a set Entities already visible will be erased The following entities are known Nodes n Elements e Faces f Points p Lines l Surfaces s Bodies b Nurb Surfaces S Nurb Lines L and Shapes sh The entities can be displayed in the following colors White w Black k Red r Green g Blue b Yellow y Magenta m To display the entities with attributes use the identifier in combination with a second letter For example plot la all will display all lines with their names The attribute d works only for lines 42 plot Id all will display all lines with their division and bias see bias The division is displayed as the last two numbers and the bias as the leading numbers If there is more than one number in front of the division the shown bias is divided by a factor of ten 10130 means a div of 30 and a bias of 10 1 Also the attribute p works only for lines In this case the lines with its end points are drawn plot Ip all This is usefu
37. string gt This keyword is used to define a comment This commend will show up in the menu area of the main window below the file name 8 94 tra tra u d 1 r lt relative distance gt This keyword is used to move the model in the window For example tra u 1 will move the model 0 1 times the model dimensions upwards The meaning of the other letters is forward f down d right r left 1 8 95 tr m trfm rec cyl x y Ig tr gt Kfirst Dataset Nr gt lt last Dataset Nr gt 72 Generates additional entities for a new coordinate system The option cyl transforms the global results to cylindrical and rec from cylindrical ones to global cartesian In both cases the axis of the cylindrical system must be pro vided So far only cylindrical systems around the major x y z axes are imple mented The first and the last dataset of a range can be specified optionally The current dataset is selected if no dataset is specified Remark rec does not wor for stresses so far 8 96 ucut acut If a section through the mesh was created with the lcut or qcut command then this command will delete the cut and display the un cutted structure 8 97 view view edge off elem off surf volu front gt back vec off disp off Commands to control the graphic output This command is i
38. that its normal direction points outwards use qfip with key a If a surface points inwards it is not illuminated and appears only dark grey Define the element type usually elty all tr3u In rectangular situations the element type tr3 gives better results If you use NETGEN 4 later on for the generation of the tet mesh then you should also prepare edges for the mesher Usually it is good enough if you mesh all lines Use be2 elements for the edges Mesh all mesh all If some surfaces can not be meshed then modify the divisions of the lines of this surfaces see lqdiv or chose the structured element type tr3 for this surfaces Or change some parameters of the unstructured mesher see jasgn See also the commands qdel and qele to fix elements manually Visualize and check the mesh plus e all Export the mesh send all stl If the model consists of several unconnected parts separate them in single sets and send one after the other in stl format see qadd qrem comp Beside the stl file a so called edge file for NETGEN will be created if be2 elements are included in the mesh Create the tet mesh outside of cgx If you use NETGEN then better use the self created edges In NETGEN open the stl doctor and go in the edges menu There delete all edges with all undefined then load the edges with load edgedata and activate them with candidate to con
39. the best way to catch a specific entity You might add all lower entities as points for example by typing jcomp set do This is necessary for example if you had selected surfaces and you want to move them in space Only points have locations and therefore nothing will happen unless you completed the set by the related points with comp command B 2 How to enquire node numbers and values at certain locations A very common problem is how to get the exact value on a node position during post processing To actually get the value add the element edges to the view see Toggle Element Edges and type qenqjand press the RETURN key during typing the mouse pointer MUST stay in the main window do NOT move the pointer into the xterm Then move the mouse pointer over the location of a node and press the n key The node number the value at that node and the location will be written in the xterm from which the cgx was started B 3 How to select only nodes on the surface Some times you need to select nodes only on the surface of the mesh This can easily be done if the mesh is displayed in the surface mode see Toggle Surfaces Volumes using the menu entry Show Elements With Light To find node positions more easily add the element edges to the view see Toggle Element Edges Or if you plot the element faces see plot with parameter f Then store the
40. the command del mesh See the command send to describe areas for boundary conditions In case a blocked grid for cfd calculations should be generated use the ad ditional parameter block mesh setname block see also the section Remarks Concerning Duns and Isaac The mesh optimizer is controlled with the additional parameters nolength and noangle These parameters switch off length and angle optimizations of elements The parameter fast suppresses the Nurbs based meshing and uses the fast coons algorithm for surface meshing Usually all elements are generated in a structured way That means that no holes in a surface or volume are permitted The only exception is the element type tr3u This type is generated in an unstructured way using the mesher from 13 In this case holes are permitted and a surface coming from a cad system should be meshable Unfortunately it does not work for all possible com binations of divisions or all possible shapes of surfaces Also the surface MUST reference a given NURBS surface or a shape to be meshable This is usually the case if the data is derived from a cad system with the interface program vda2fbd 8 37 mids mids lt set gt lin gen rem This keyword is used correct the midside node position of higher order elements stored in a set It is performed automatically if a new mesh is created or if 38
41. the user defines the new spline and then moves the mouse in an area were one of the old lines the new one might be present as well is located and presses the e key The definition of the lemb will be changed without destroying the surface definition Press q to quit the command or u to delete the last created line It is also possible to measure distances between two pixels on the screen Just press the key w on the positions of the two pixels The distance is calculated in the scale of the displayed geometry 8 67 qnor qnor RETURN w p A new line normal to a plane defined by three points is created It starts at the last point 8 68 qpnt gt qpnt lt name gt optional RETURN gt w Pp Pg PePe PePE Pr This keyword is used to create or move points see also pnt The user might specify a name in the command line if a certain name should be used To create a point move the mouse pointer to the desired location and press the 53 key g generate or over an existing node and press n uses then the node coordinates After a point was selected with p it can be moved in different ways Either in the screen plane for this go to the desired position and press m move Or the point can be moved to the position of a second point for E gift this go to the second point which coordinates should be used and press p again If the coor
42. to be used With the option delay a time delay in seconds between frames can be specified With the option clean all single gif files will be erased Here is an example command sequences movi delay 0 01 movi start movi stop movi make 0 500 movi make 0 500 prolog gif movi clean 40 8 42 msg msg onloff This keyword is used to enable or disable full printout during runtime This is useful for debugging purposes The default is off 8 43 node node lt nr gt lt x gt lt y gt lt z gt This keyword is used to define or redefine a node For example node 23580 10 0 1 defines a node with the number 23580 at the position x 10 y 0 z 1 8 44 nurl nurl lt name char9 gt DEFINE COMPACT lt pstart gt lt pend gt gt lt deg gt lt npnt gt lt nknt gt lt div gt CONTROL lt index gt lt pnt gt lt x y z gt lt weight gt KNOT lt index gt lt value gt gt END This keyword is used to define a nurbs line So far this command is only used to read a nurbs line definition Nurbs lines are converted automatically into a spline Nurbs lines can be displayed but not saved There are two possible ways of definition Either by using predefined point names or by specifying the coordinates explicitly When the coordinates are defined the parameter COM PACT must be used as shown above When the point names are used then
43. 00 0 00000 0 00000 aN LINE L001 POOI P001 pO LINE L002 P001 P003 pO 4 LINE L003 P003 pO 8 LINE L004 pO POOI 8 LINE L005 P003 P005 pO 4 LINE L006 P005 P006 pO 4 LINE L007 P006 pO 8 LINE L009 P006 P009 pO LINE LOOA P009 POOA pO 4 aN 101 LINE LINE LINE GSUR GSUR ELTY Figure 10 disc made of four 90 degree segments LOOC POOA po 8 LOOG POOA POOG pO 4 LOOI POOG POOI pO 4 GSUR A001 BLEND L003 GSUR A002 BLEND L007 A003 BLEND LOOC A004 BLEND L004 all QU4 C 2 Cylinder PNT PNT PNT PNT PNT PNT po py pl P001 P002 P003 0 0 1 1 0 0 00000 00000 00000 00000 00000 00000 L002 L006 LOOA LOOI 0 00000 0 00000 O 00000 00000 00000 00000 102 L001 L005 L009 LOOG py L004 L003 L007 LOOC 00000 00000 00000 00000 00000 00000 FR ROOOO PNT P006 PNT POO7 PNT POOA PNT POOC LINE L001 LINE L002 LINE L003 LINE L004 LINE L005 LINE L006 LINE L007 LINE L008 LINE L009 LINE LOOA LINE LOOI LINE LOOJ GSUR A001 Figure 11 cylinder made of four 90 degree segments 1 1 0 0 00000 00000 00000 00000 pi P001 2 P002 P003 2 pi P002 pO 8 P001 P006 P002 P003 POOA P006 P007 POOA POOC BLEND P003 py P007 2 POO6 pO P007 py POOC 2 POOA pO POOC py pi po 8 POO1 py 8 0 00000 1 00000 0 00000 1 00000 103 0 00000 0 00000 1 00000 1 00000
44. 10 2 User Header Record Purpose Stores additional user informations regarding the job ie user id creation date model informations Form KEY CODE STRING Format 1X 1 U A66 10 3 Nodal Point Coordinate Block Purpose Defines the nodal coordinates 1 Record Form KEY CODE FORMAT Where KEY 2 CODE C FORMAT Format indicator 0 short format 1 long format Format 1X 2 C 67X 11 Following records Form KEY NODE X Y Z Short Format 1X 1 15 3E12 5 Long Format 1X 1 110 3E12 5 Where KEY 1 NODE Kis node number coordinates Last Record Form KEY Format 1X 3 82 10 4 Element Definition Block Purpose Defines the topology of the elements 1 Record Form KEY CODE FORMAT Where KEY 3 CODE C FORMAT Format indicator 0 short format 1 long format Format 1X 3 C 67X 11 The following block of records must be repeated for each element The first record initializes an element definition Form KEY ELEMENT TYPE GROUP MATERIAL Short Format 1X 1 15 315 Long Format 1X 1 110 315 Where KEY NODE element number TYPE element type see section Element Types GROUP element group number see command groups MATERIAL element material number see command mats Then the nodes in the correct order have to follow Form KEY NODE NODE NODE NODE Short Forma
45. 10 3 y View To look along the y axis 7 10 4 y View To look against the y axis 7 10 5 z View To look along the z axis 7 10 6 z View To look against the z axis 7 11 Hardcopy To create a hard copy during animation it is useful to stop the animation first with the middle mouse button while inside the menu area of the main window and then release one picture after the other with the right button until the desired amplitude or step is reached 7 11 1 Tga Hardcopy To create a window dump in tga format You might use the program convert 110 to convert this format to others 7 11 2 Ps Hardcopy To create a window dump in postscript format The program convert must be installed 7 11 3 Gif Hardcopy To create a window dump in gif format The program convert must be installed 7 11 4 Png Hardcopy To create a window dump in png format The program convert must be installed 20 7 11 5 Start Recording Gif Movie All frames during an animation are stored The recording ends after the right mouse button is pressed while in the menu area Finally all frames are combined in the file movie gif which can be displayed with various tools Firefox 11 or realplay If the animation is stopped with the middle mouse button while in the menu area then the movie stops until it is released by pressing the middle mouse button again See movil for the keyboard options 7 12 Help Starts the
46. 2 Orn T 073 0yyO zz 2079y0y20 20 Oral yz TyyO za O 220 zy 0 In addition the the three components of the vector of worstPS are stored as well The entity names are worstPSx worstPSy worstPSz 86 11 4 Tresca Stresses Entity name Tresca This is the maximum shear stress Tresca 0 5 a1 03 11 5 Cylindrical Stresses Entity names SXX STT SRR SXT STR SRX The Cylindrical Stresses are truly cartesin stresses in a cylindrical system re garding the node psition So the stress tensor is rotated individually for each node 12 User Functions The user might define his own functions to manipulate the mesh or the re sults with the user function stored in file userFunction c See the command call how to call a user function The user can generate new nodes elements or datasets or extend or manipulate existing datasets or interfaces to other software The file userFunction c includes an example which calculates the hydrostatic stress and stores the result in a new dataset There the user can see how to deal with datasets A Known Problems A 1 Program is not responding If the program seems to hang then leave the window with the mouse pointer and go in again If that does not help then probably a command is waiting for input Stay with the mouse pointer inside the window and press the q key several times Another very popular error is to move the mouse pointer into the xterm wer
47. 2 tra 10 20 30 a rot will create a copy and will move it around the axis defined by the points pl and p2 by alfa degrees copy setl set2 rot p0 px 20 rad will create a copy and will move it radially to the x y or z axis or will create a spherical section if just a single point is defined copy cylinderl cylinder2 rad x 20 copy spherel sphere2 rad pP0 10 mir will create a mirrored copy The mirror plane is placed normal to the direction running from P1 to P2 and placed at P2 copy sectionl section2 mir P1 P2 8 9 corrad gt corrad lt set gt This is a very special command to adjust improperly defined arc lines like in fillets The center points of arc lines included in the set are moved in a way that 25 each arc line will run tangentially into a connected straight line But because the end points of the arc lines are not moved only one side of each arc line will run into a connected line The other side is not controlled and might end in a sharp corner Therefore for each arc line exactly one connected straight line must be included into the set Figure 3 Line L002 and L003 are members of set LIN Point D004 is the center point of arc line L003 and will be moved Line L003 runs now tangential Command into line L002 corrad LIN 002 002 L003 L003 D004 D004 Figure 3 Effect of the corrad command 8 10 cut cut lt pnt nod gt lt pnt nod gt lt pnt nod gt This keyword is use
48. 70711 00000 70711 70711 00000 0 00000 pi POOL 8 POOL P008 8 pi P006 POOL 8 P006 P008 POOL POOL POON 8 pi POOK POOL 8 POOK POON POOL P006 POOK POOC P008 POON POOL BLEND L003 BLEND L005 BLEND L003 BLEND L004 BLEND L002 COCO OrFR SO 1 00000 O 0 00000 0 0 50000 D 0 70711 0 0 00000 0 0 70711 0 0 00000 0 1 00000 0 LOO1 L002 L004 LOO1 LOOA LOOC LOOG LOOA LOOG LOOC LOOJ LOOJ L005 00000 00000 50000 70711 00000 00000 00000 00000 NORM A006 A003 A004 A002 A001 all HE20 105 Figure 13 Segment of a Sphere Volume C 5 Airfoil for cfd codes All surfaces must be oriented in the same way The sets are used to define areas for the boundary conditions PNT P002 0 24688 0 00667 0 00000 PNT P003 0 24375 0 00903 0 00000 PNT P004 0 23750 0 01228 0 00000 PNT P005 0 23125 0 01450 0 00000 PNT P006 0 22500 0 01608 0 00000 PNT P007 0 21250 0 01798 0 00000 PNT P008 0 20000 0 01875 0 00000 PNT P009 0 18750 0 01900 0 00000 PNT POOA 0 17500 0 01888 0 00000 PNT POOC 0 15000 0 01785 0 00000 PNT POOE 0 12500 0 01602 0 00000 PNT POOG 0 10000 0 01368 0 00000 PNT POOI 0 07500 0 01090 0 00000 106 AE a O oe ee 0 ee gam a POOJ POOK POOL POOO POOP POOR POOS POOT POOV POOW POOX P00Z P010 P011 P012 P013 P014 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 wS TT TT
49. A See EoD Oe RE RS OER ee aS 8 5 COUN SS eR eects ters ates Pets Bs ay ae ete ep hes ae ee ee es a 8 6 COUGH widows SOLO bad Be hha tee a bs Bate ee 8 7 COMP dess dt r tot els De Le a eee ee GS 8 8 GOLV e eer Sa ae aa e nn a a a 8 9 CA hess Bee ce ay es rss Jones ver cg tee Cae ee ae A CDe ee be a a a ara delis cs astm en a cee E a Sea ee A A N s LAN aa Ata a a IB ae At e E AE A TS 8 17 eqal 8 18 exit 8 19 flip 8 20 font 8 21 frame 8 22 gbod 8 23 gonly 8 24 graph 8 25 gsur 8 26 gtol 8 27 hcpy 8 28 hel 8 29 lcmb 8 30 length 8 31 line 8 32 matal 8 33 mats 8 34 max 18 35 merg 8 36 mesh 8 37 mids 8 38 min 8 39 minus 8 40 move 8 41 movi 8 42 msg 8 43 node 8 44 nur 8 45 nurs 8 46 ori 8 47 plot 8 48 plus 3 49 pat 3 50 prnt 8 51 proj 8 52 qadd 8 53 qalil 8 54 qbia 8 55 qbod 8 56 gent 8 57 qcut 8 58 qdel 8 59 qdis
50. All entities like points or bodies and so on must be stored at least in one set to be reachable The set all is created automatically at startup and will be open see seto all the time unless explicitly closed see setc To add points to the set dummy type seta dummy p pl p2 This will add the points p1 and p2 to the set The following entities are known Nodes n Elements e Faces f Points p Lines 1 Surfaces s Bodies b Nurb Surfaces S Nurb Lines L names of other sets se or shapes sh If another set is added then its content is appended The program will automatically determine the type of the entities if not specified but then the names must be unique More than one name can be specified A minus sign between two names specifies a range of names with steps of steps Is the sign specified instead of a setname the program generates auto matic sets with system defined setnames and stores entities in it The only case were this can be used is to separate independent meshes stored in the basic set The single independent meshes are then referenced by new setnames for example seta all will determine all separate volume meshes in set all 8 85 setc setc lt set gt This keyword is used to close an open set Without parameter setc will close the last opened set 69 8 86 seto seto lt set gt This keyword is used to enquire open sets seto O
51. Contents CalculiX USER S MANUAL CalculiX GraphiX Version 2 3 Klaus Wittig March 23 1 Introduction 2 Concept File Formats Getting Started Program Parameters Input Devices 6 1 Mouse 6 2 Keyboard Menu 71 Dataset Gall Entity 7 2 Viewin 1 2 1 Show Elements With Light 7 2 2 Show Bad Elements 7 2 3 Eill pia enn AC a ale 7 2 4 Lines 7 2 5 Doble amo a a 7 2 6 Toggle Culling Back Front desk Toggle Model Edges 7 2 8 Toggle Element Edges 2 9 Toggle Surfaces Volumes 7 2 10 Toggle Move Z Zoom 201 Toggle Background Color 7 2 12 Toggle Vector Plot C213 Toggle Add Displacement 2011 7 3 A enr Bs te end Be oe Aas S amp H oR aha ee ee sd ISA dnr kd oe eek a De a BR Pal wo a ioe as 132 TimeValue ss cee soc oe howe He SRG Re ee de 7 3 3 Steps per Period s s aa morka ados m AK RNE sk RR JK AR 7 3 4 Time per Period sc smsa 4 ba as eR eee vor a 7 3 5 Toggle Real Displacements 0 7 3 6 Toggle Dataset Sequence o e
52. LCMB GSUR GSUR GSUR GSUR GSUR GSUR GSUR GSUR GSUR GSUR GSUR GSUR GSUR GSUR GSUR SETA SETA SETA SETA SETA SETA SETA SETA SETA SETA SETA SETA LOSI LO5L LO5Z LO6C LO6F LO6H LO6I LO6J L001 LOOA LOOK L009 L000 L002 LOOL PO5M PO5N P058 P019 PO5M PO5G PO5L PO5H PO1A PO3E P052 PO2M PO3C POON PO3P p3 204 PO5M PO5S PO5V POSG POSI POSH PO5J POON PO3P PO3B PO1B P054 PO3E PO2M cl pli p12 120 L005 P000 P019 C001 C004 A001 A002 A003 A004 A005 AOOI AOOJ AOOK AOOL AOON A000 AOOP AOOR AOOS AOOT wall wall wall wall profil profil profil profil profil profil eE E BL BL BL BL BL BL BL BL BL BL BL BL BL BL BL LO LO LO LO PRRR 4 4 4 4 1 1 1 I 1 1 profil 1 in 1 L004 001 OOK END END END END END END END END END END END END END END END 5C 59 5A 5D LOOC LOOE L001 LOOA L009 L002 LOOL 912 130 130 130 204 130 204 S001 SOOE SOOL SOOA S00X 5002 SOOP 120 L002 LOON L003 L006 LOOC L008 LO6C LO4W LO4V L04Z LO6J LO4V LO6H LO4W LO4X L058 L056 210 120 110 210 110 205 205 LOOA L000 C004 LO3S LOO7 LOSZ LOOI L050 L004 LO5C LO5D L052 LO6F LO3R L054 LO5V LO6I 110 LOOL L006 L008 LO3R LOOG LO5V LO4X L04Z LO6J LOSF LO6H LOSI L058 L056 LO5L LOSS L009 C001 LOOE L003
53. LO6C L007 C004 L050 L054 LO6I LO5A L059 L052 LO3S LO6F LO5Z SETA out 1 LO5F SETA out 1 LO5S SETA out 1 LOOG SETA out 1 LOOI SETA out 1 LOSI SETA out 1 LO5L References 1 OpenGL Like Rendering Toolkit from Brian Paul 10 11 12 13 14 http www mesa3d org OpenGL Utility Toolkit GLUT from Mark J Kilgard CalculiX GraphiX cgx from Klaus H Wittig klaus h wittig r t online de NETGEN unstructured mesher http www hpfem jku at netgen Duns a two and three dimensional cfd code https sourceforge net projects duns ISAAC a two and three dimensional cfd code http isaac cfd sourceforge net OpenFOAM a three dimensional cfd code http www opencfd co uk Tochnog a free fem code http tochnog sourceforge net Tutorial for CalculiX from Dr Guido Dhondt http www dhondt de tutorial html ImageMagick 5 1 0 00 01 01 Q 8 cristyg mystic es dupont com Copy right Copyright C 2000 ImageMagick Studio Mozilla Foundation http www firefox com S A Coons Surfaces for computer aided design of space forms Project MAC MIT 1964 Revised to MAC TR 41 1967 mesh2d unstructured 2D mesher from B Kaan Karamete Ph D No URL Available Paul Dierckx Curve and Surface Fitting with Splines Oxford University Press 1993
54. able to read solver results e frd format files of this format are used to read results of previous calcula tions like displacements and stresses This format is described in section Result Format It is also used by cecx e duns a free cfd code 5 e isaac a free cfd code 6 e OpenFOAM a free cfd code 7 For a more detailed description on how to use cgx to read this formats see Program Parameters See the send command for how to write them from Cgx 4 Getting Started For installation help see Calculix cgx_X X INSTALL After the program is installed on your machine you should check the functionality by running the examples included in the distribution The examples are located in Cal culix cgx X X examples Before going further you should read the section Input Devices Then begin with a result file called result frd Just type cgx result frd and some information is echoed in the xterm and a new window called main window appears on the screen see figure 11 Now you should continue with the subsection Dataset and Entity which explains how to display results After seeing the values you might play around a bit with the Menu See also the commands steps max min scal which might be used to modify the representation Watch out if you ene a command the cgx window MUST stay active and not the xterm from which the program was starte
55. ailable together with automati cally generated sets which store boundaries equations and more These sets start with the sign For example the set bou stores all constrained nodes where the set boul bou2 bou3 store the constraints for the individual di rections Further the set dep and ind store the dependent and independent nodes involved in equations etc See which sets are defined with the command e prnt se Each line starts with the set index then the set name followed by the number of all referenced entities The sets can be specified by index or name For example if the index of set blade is 5 the following commands are equivalent e plot p 5 e plot p blade Predefined loads are stored as Datasets to be visualized Sets with the name of the load type CLOAD DLOAD store the related nodes faces or elements Use the command e plot 7 or e plus to visualize entities of sets Then run the input file with ccx The result file frd can be visualized with cgx filename frd filename inp were the solver input file filename inp is optional With this file the sets boundary conditions and loads used in the calculation are available together with the results If you have problems doing the above or if you want to learn more and in more detail about the cgx continue with the tutorial 9 and look in the appendix section
56. ans that all surfaces must be defined clockwise or counter clockwise For isaac they have to be counter clockwise if you look in z direction The block structure can be detected only in this case You can check the mesh by simply mesh it with shell elements and display it illuminated All elements must be either dark or lighted A later qflp or flip command will not cure wrong oriented surfaces since they only change the sign in their definition and not the basic edge sequence which is necessary here See also Program Parameters mesh send with option nam 97 B 14 Remarks Concerning OpenFOAM The mesh can be written in OpenFOAM polyMesh format with the command send If you work in the polyMesh directory of the OpenFOAM case then all mesh related files will be already in place So far the physical type is not writ ten in the boundary file as it is not mandatory The results of an OpenFOAM calculation can be viewed by specifying the parameter foam and the case See also Program Parameters for a closer description Since openFoam version 1 3 uses a new format it is required to convert the re sulting files After exporting the OpenFOAM mesh i e boundary cells faces points copy these 4 files to an OpenFOAM case say project that will be un der project constant polyMeh Then from the parent directory of project do checkMesh project This will convert the mesh to
57. ation of the volumes K swep SYMETRY s1 swep tra 0 0 1 all the volume will be automatically 99 created 7 Looking for common points lines and surfaces In the order K merg p all K merg 1 all K merg s all 8 Creation of the LOAD set and ANCHORAG one K qadd LOAD use rr keys to select the surface K qadd ANCHORAG use rr keys to select the surface NOTA It s easy to verify the different sets for example K plot b all you can see all the volumes K plus s LOAD you can see the set LOAD K plus s ANCHORAG K plus s SYMETRY 9 Mesh K plot ld all K div all mult 2 K elty all HE20 to specify HEXAHEDRA with 20 nodes K elty LOAD qu8 to mesh the set LOAD otherwise no quads will be created K elty ANCHORAG que K elty SYMETRY K mesh all to mesh the part with all dat name K send all sam to export the mesh into Samcef format K send LOAD sam nam to export groups into Samcef format K send ANCHORAG sam nam see previous remark K send SYMETRY sam nam 10 Modifications It s possible now to make some modifications a open all dat file with your favorite text editor Vi for me b open ANCHORAG nam amp the SYMETRIC nam files and do the same as previously c concatenate under Linux the files using the following schema cat all dat LOAD nam gt si m cat si m ANCHORAG nam gt s2 m cat s2 m SYMETRY nam gt part dat all the sx m files will be erased afterward d ope
58. be saved with the new file extension fbb as a backup 8 81 scal scal s v d lt value gt This keyword is used to scale the graphic presentation of values but no values of entities The scaling of the value itself can be done with the command ds For example the command scal s 0 5 will scale the range of values presented in the color plot by a factor of 0 5 The command scal v 5 will scale the length of vectors by a factor of 5 The command scal d 2 will scale the deformed shape by a factor of 2 Without a value it restores the default value See also Toggle Vector Plot Toggle Add Displacement Dataset 59 8 82 send send lt set gt abq ans ast dar duns fbd frd nas gt st1 tcg lt RETURN gt ds lt nr gt tmf sta lt refspeed gt crp lt timefact gt lt refspeed gt lt writefreq gt comp mpc lt rotation gt lt v1 gt lt v2 gt lt v3 gt names spc lt dofs 1 6 gt lt value gt gt ds lt nr gt e lt nr gt gt nor lt faci gt lt fac2 gt lt fac3 gt slide c s rx gt ry erz Pta ty tz pres lt value gt ds lt nr gt e lt nr gt film lt temp gt ds lt nr gt e lt nr gt gt lt coeff gt ds lt nr gt e lt nr gt Prad lt temp
59. can be determined for all surfaces In this case all related surfaces and embedded elements are oriented in the same way as the selected one It works only in situations were only two surfaces share a common edge This is the case for volumes without inner surfaces or a 2D model In case of a volume all surface normals will point either inwards or outwards depending on the orientation of the selected surface Press q to quit the command It is also possible to measure distances between two pixels on the screen Just press the key w on the positions of the two pixels The distance is calculated 51 02 Figure 6 qfil Based on two intersecting lines a fillet is created in the scale of the displayed geometry 8 65 qint qint RETURN w 1 q This keyword is used to extend two lines to their intersecting location The end points of the two lines are moved to the intersecting location but they are not merged Use the mergl command to merge duplicate points Only straight lines are supported Select lines with the 1 key Press q to quit the command 8 66 qlin qlin lt name gt optional RETURN gt w PEPE Pe PEPP PEPP PEPEL Pte PLP This keyword is used to create a sequence of lines or just one see also line The user might specify a name in the command line or by picking an existing 52 line with the key 1 To start a sequence of lines move the
60. case sensitive sade combination of parameters or optional parameter Remark OR amp AND from to gt command continues in the next line RETURN press the RETURN key 21 Entities with the exception of nodes and elements are referenced by names which can contain letters and numbers Usually one to four characters is rec ommended If a new entity uses an existing name the old definition will be overwritten To overcome this problem alias names can be used An alias name is defined with the sign in front An already defined alias name can be referenced by placing the sign in front For example LINE L1 P1 P2 SET will create a line with the alias name L1 and will use the alias names P1 and P2 to define the end points and uses the set SET to define the point sequence between the end points 8 1 area area lt set gt This keyword is used to calculate the area and the center of gravity of a set of shell elements or surfaces of volume elements 8 2 asgn asgn n e p 71 Ig p S L ge gt sh alpha beta nadapt lt value gt This keyword is used to define the first node or element number which will be used for the next mesh generation And it is used to redefine the leading char acter of new entities The default is D for points p L for lines 1 C for combined lines Icmb c A for surfaces s B for Bodies b Q for nurb lines nurl L N
61. d It is better to stay with the mouse pointer in the cgx window Next Quit the program and type cgx b geometry fbd in the xterm The program starts again but now you see only a wire frame of the geometry Move the mouse pointer into the new window and type mesh all The mouse pointer MUST stay in this window during typing and NOT in the xterm from which the program was started After you see ready in the parent xterm the mesh is created To actually see it type plus ea all Now you see the mesh in green color To see the mesh as a wire frame choose in the main menu Viewing and continue to the entry Toggle Element Edges and then again in Viewing choose Points To see the mesh illuminated chose in the main menu Viewing and continue to the entry Show Elements With Light To see it filled choose in the main menu Viewing and continue to the entity Fill Most of the time it is sufficient to see the surface elements only For this purpose choose in the main menu Viewing and continue to the entry Toggle Surfaces Volumes If you start cgx in the post processor mode as you did in the first example cgx result frd the surface mode is automatically set To see the interior of the structure choose in the main menu Viewing and continue to the entity Toggle Culling Back Front To save the mesh in the format used by the solver type sen
62. d ie 1 1 0 For isaac and duns the same syntax has to be used send all duns viscous wall profil subsonic inflow in subsonic outflow out send all isaac WALL profil FARFIELD far EXTRAPOLATE out The command send set frd will write nodes and or elements in frd format This file could be read in again later on to define sets during post processing see read If the parameter comp follows and the set includes not all nodes used by the included elements then the missed nodes will be detected and stored as well in the set before the set is written For example send elem frd comp will at first include all nodes used by the elements to the set elem and will then write the file If the parameter names follows the solver type then just the element or node numbers are written This is useful for defining sets for the solvers The command send steel abq names will write the node and element numbers included in steel This file could be used to define a set for material assignments boundary conditions or loads If the solver format duns is used then related numbers of surfaces 3D or lines 2D will be written This information is necessary to apply boundary conditions to duns The numbers are used in the connectivity file duns conn which will be created by the mesh command The user has to refer this numbers 62 in the duns script2 file when assigning boundary conditions It is also possible t
63. d 6 selects the highest font for the drawing area were font 11 selects the smallest one for the legend The default is selected if no number is specified font d or font 31 8 21 frame frame This command fits the model into the drawing area 8 22 gbod gbod lt name char lt 9 gt NORM lt surf gt lt surf gt gt 5 7 surfaces This keyword is used to define or redefine a body in the most basic way see also qbod Each body must have five to seven surfaces to be mesh able However the number of recommended surfaces is six The first two surfaces should be the top and the bottom surfaces For example gbod B001 NORM S001 5002 S005 S004 5003 S006 will create a body B001 The keyword NORM is a necessary placeholder for future functionallity but has no actual meaning Next follow the surfaces with a sign or in front that indicates the orientation of each surface These signs will be corrected automatically if necessary If the an automatically generated name is desired then type instead of a name 8 23 gonly gonly on off This keyword is used to erase the contents of the menu area Sometimes this is useful for hardcopies 8 24 graph graph lt amplitude gt amp lt material gt mat lt seq gt length q g lt set gt p nr time descr lt parameter na
64. d all abq To store the mesh in the result format type send all frd To create a new model start the cgx by typing cgx b file where file will be the name of the new model if you later exit the program with the command exit The way to create a model from scratch is roughly as follows create e points with qpnt or pnt e lines with qlin e surfaces with qsur e Bodies with qbod h If possible create higher geometry by sweeping or copying geometry with swep You can write a file with basic commands like pnt to create or copy the basis for your construction and read it with the read command Most commands can be used in batch mode This allows the user to write a command file for repeated actions After the geometry is created the divisions of the lines can be changed to control the density of the elements Display the lines and their divisions with e plot ld all To change the element division use e laqdiv The default division is 4 With a division of 4 a line will have 6 nodes and will therefore be the edge of two element of the quadratic type Next the type of the elements must be defined This can be done for each of the different sets A new assignment will replace a previous one
65. d faces or nodes Then open a set and read the master model seto new read result frd add setc 92 Define the faces with the master nodes comp new do plot f new qadd master catch the right faces comp master do If necessary move the slave in space to match the position of the master see move Write the file with the mapped values send slave master abq surfmap dsi el Check the mapping with ds lel plot fv slave Check the file slave_dsi dat with an editor and use it in an inp file B 9 How to run cgx in batch mode Most commands can be executed in batch mode Actually if you read a file with geometry fbd file then you run cgx in batch mode already You just have to add exit or quit at the end of the file and it will be obvious You might use the read command in such a command file to reference other command files or to read files with mesh entities for whatever purposes In such a way you can create and modify geometry or meshes in batch mode or evaluate results in batch mode But you need a graphic capable computer because cgx needs it also if no graphic output is requested Nevertheless the popup of the graphic window can be suppressed if cgx was started with the bg parameter B 10 How to deal with cad geometry A simple step reader is integrated in cgx It can deal with points and lines You might start with a file containing a 2D section subdivide it in meshable surfac
66. d to define a cutting plane through elements to visualize internal results The plane is defined by three nodes or points The menu option Show Elements With Light or the commands luncut view surf or view volu will display the whole model again and will delete the plane This command is intended for batch mode See qcut for the cursor controlled command 8 11 del del Pp PTE 1 10 PePPe re rer se sh lt entity gt se0 mesh pic 26 This keyword is used to delete entities the whole mesh see also qdel or a background picture For example del se part will delete the set part but all included entities are still there The follow ing entities are known Points p Lines 1 Combined lines c Surfaces s Bodies b Nurb Surfaces S Nurb Lines L Sets se and Shapes sh When an entity is deleted all dependent higher entities are deleted as well Special cases are del 10 set ljzero were all lines with zero length in set set are deleted and del se0 will delete all empty sets If a background picture was loaded with the read command it can be deleted with del pic 8 12 div div lt line gt lt division gt div lt set gt lt division gt mult div lt factor div gt lt factor bias gt auto lt node dist gt lt angle gt This keyword is used to define the division o
67. de penta element pel5 type 5 10 Result Format Listing of the format of the mesh and the nodal results The data are stored in fixed format The format is able to store element and node numbers up to 99999 in the short form or up to 79999999999 in the long form An example for the short form is shown below 1Ctest 1221C defines a new calc of name test 1UDATE 26 march 2000 1U stores job informations 2C 1222C starts a block of node coordinates 1 1 0 00000E 00 0 00000E 00 0 00000E 00 1 node 1 2 0 10000E 01 0 00000E 00 0 00000E 00 2 node 3 lend of the current block 3C 1223C starts a block of element definitions 1 1 4 0 0 first element type of that element is 4 he20 2 1 2 3 4 13 14 15 16 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 2 12 17 18 19 20 twenty nodes defining that element f 2 x HD ec 3 lend of the current block 1PHID 10 Idefines a parameter with the name HID and assignes the value 10 100CL101 100C starts a user defined result block 4 DISP 3 1 Attribute Header Record Dataset 5 Di 1 2 1 0 Component Definition Record Entity 5 D2 1 2 2 0 5 D3 1 2 3 0 1 0 00000E 00 1 00000E 00 1 00000E 00 Nodal Values 2 1 00000E 00 0 00000E 00 0 00000E 00 MM MM MV MV MV MV MMMVV VM V SYM VV OV 81 gt 3 lend of the current block gt 9999 lend of data 10 1 Model Header Record Purpose Defines the name of the model Form KEY CODE NAME Format 1X 1 C0 A6
68. dinates of a node should be used press n instead Also a normal projection to a nurbs related surface from cad systems is feasible by choosing the target surface with the s key or a NURBS surface with the S key either before or after the point was marked See qali or the section Y yt Orientation how to rotate the model into a certain position Press q to quit the command or u to undo the last action If you picked the wrong point the one which should be moved just pick the same again and pick then the correct one It is also possible to measure distances between two pixels on the screen Just press the key w on the positions of the two pixels The distance is calculated in the scale of the displayed geometry 8 69 qnod qnod RETURN w p m u This keyword is used to move nodes see also node To move a node move the mouse pointer to the desired node and press p pick then go to the desired position and press m move See qalilor the section Orientation how to rotate the model into a certain position Press q to quit the command or u to undo the last action It is also possible to measure distances between two pixels on the screen Just press the key w on the positions of the two pixels The distance is calculated in the scale of the displayed geometry 8 70 qrem qrem l
69. direction to and from the user by pressing the middle mouse button and moving the pointer up and down while inside the drawing area Usually it needs some mouse movements until the clipping plane has reached the structure Depending on hardware this functionality could be slow After zooming in consider using the plot and plus commands to customize your view 7 2 11 Toggle Background Color With this option it is possible to switch between a black and a white back ground 7 2 12 Toggle Vector Plot It is possible to add small needles to the plot which point with their heads in the direction of the vectors Only entities which are marked in the database as vectors will be affected See Nodal Results Block for information on how entities are marked as vectors Internally calculated vector results like the worst principal stress are marked automatically If one component or the value of a vector is selected then the option takes immediate effect This option can be used in combination with Animate Toggle Dataset Sequence See also the keyboard command ds how to select datasets and entities with the keyboard In this case entities which are NOT marked in the dataset as vectors can be displayed with vector needles This command line approach with ds is the only way to display duns cfd results with vector needles See also the command scal how to manipulate the length of t
70. e positions of the two pixels The distance is calculated in the scale of the displayed geometry 8 60 qdiv gdiv RETURN w a 3 12 292 gt 10 99 ig This keyword is used to change the division of a line by pressing a number between 1 and 9 when the mouse pointer is at the position of a line see also div To define numbers between 10 and 99 press the space bar when the mouse pointer is at the position of a line and then the number To select more than one line with one stroke type a before and create a rectangular picking area Mii by pressing two times the r key Both strokes define opposite corners of the rectangle To select only one line type i before Press q to quit the command General rules are described in div It is also possible to measure distances between two pixels on the screen Just press the key w on the positions of the two pixels The distance is calculated in the scale of the displayed geometry 49 8 61 qele qele RETURN s v n q This keyword is used to manually define elements The key n selects nodes and the key s or v generate a surface or volume element based on the node selection Mostly used to repair stl files manually 8 62 qenq gt genq RETURN wali ire in Pe lf lp eI ee PhS gt E h q This keyword is used to gain information about entities It is especially usefu
71. e the typed commands and the protocol is visible Please the mouse pointer MUST stay in the main window during typing A 2 During Meshing If a body can not be meshed although no obvious error is in its definition then the reason could be that the shape of the body is very far from being brick like Subdivide the body to improve the shapes of the single ones For the moment there are some restrictions for the definition of five or seven sided bodies For example the first two surfaces in the body topology see gbod have to be defined in the same order That means the first line of the first surface has to be connected with the first line in the second surface by one of the remaining surfaces 87 A 3 Program generates a segmentation fault Write a mail to the author and if possible add the input file 3 B Tips and Hints B 1 Creating a set of entities Some knowledge is necessary to efficiently select entities nodes points As a golden rule in complicated situations never try to create a set just by adding the entities to the set see qadd It is much better to catch a bigger group which includes certainly the wanted ones Then display the set with the plot command and remove all unwanted entities with the qrem command Entities are selected if at least one pixel of it is inside the selection rectangle But there is one exception Only the lower left corner of any text names of points etc can be selected This is
72. ed on a description of the geometry For example it uses lines for beam elements surfaces for shell elements and volumes bodies for brick elements The program distinguishes between the mesh and the underlying geometry Elements are made from faces and faces are made from nodes If you move a node the corresponding face s and element s will follow The geometry behaves according to the mesh Lines are made from points surfaces are made from lines and bodies are made of surfaces Surfaces might have 3 to 5 edges and bodies might have 5 to 7 surfaces As a result if you modify the position of a point all related geometry will follow In other words if the location of geometric entities is changed it is necessary to move the points on which the entities rely It should be noted that faces exist only on free surfaces of the model Even though cgx cannot generate tet meshes it is still possible to generate a surface mesh of triangles and export it in stl format This format can be read by external meshers such as NETGEN 4 This mesher fills the volume with tetrahedra elements and is able to export the Abaqus file format This can be read by cgx and ccx see also How to deal with cad geometry In addition entities can be grouped together to make sets Sets are useful to handle parts of a model For example sets can be used to manipulate or display a few entities at a time see also Creating a set of entities After a mesh is created
73. edge select the following ones one after the other with the 1 key Each marked line is listed in the mother xterm If all lines of the first edge are selected select the lines of the second edge by pressing the 2 key then the third and eventually the fourth and fifth The last selected line must match the first All lines defining an edge will create a combined line see lemb and this combined line will show up in the definition of the surface Then generate the surface by pressing the g key and you might continue with the next surface By default the interior of the surface is defined according to Coons which is a blended function But it can also follow an embedded NURBS surface or a shape To relate the surface to an existing NURBS surface select the NURBS surface with the S key uppercase or to a shape with the h key Or replace assignments by the blended function with the b key To quit the command use the q key or use u to undo the last action It is also possible to measure distances between two pixels on the screen Just press the key w on the positions of the two pixels The distance is calculated in the scale of the displayed geometry 8 75 quit quit This keyword is used to terminate the program without save 8 76 read read lt geo file gt add lt ccx file gt inp add 56 lt result
74. el will map the values from Dataset 1 and entity 1 to the nodes of set dep Usu ally the indep nodes on which the values are known were included from an external result file with the read command with the parameter add For further details see How to map surface loads in the appendix 8 83 sega sega lt seq gt nod pnt lt name gt lt gt afte befo lt name gt lt name gt lt gt end lt name gt lt gt This keyword is used to create or redefine a set marked as a sequential set This set is used for spline definitions see line With the command qlin such a sequential set is automatically created To begin such a set type for example SEQA Q003 PNT P004 P005 P006 POOM POON The program will create or overwrite the set Q003 The command will con tinue in the next line if the sign is found SEQA Q003 PNT P004 P005 P006 68 P007 P008 P009 The parameter AFTE will insert additional points after the first specified point in the existing sequence The parameter BEFO will insert additional points be fore the first specified point and the parameter END will add additional points to the sequence 8 84 seta seta lt set gt 212 e p 1 1 c 1 8 b S L se sh lt name n e lt name gt lt name gt lt steps gt This keyword is used to create or redefine a set see also qadd
75. elected see Toggle Dataset Sequence After the selection of the datasets an Entity must be specified Then the user could use the graph command to generate the history plot of this pre defined sequence The command graph set nr will display the values on the node positions vs the dataset number The command graph set time will display the nodal values vs the dataset values usually time if available and the command graph set descr will display the nodal values vs the dataset description only makes sense if the description is a numerical value In addition a second data file is written graph out2 which stores the node number and the node coordinates and all values at this node position for all datasets This file can be used to display values over node positions etc It is up to the user to generate a suitable plot out of this data The graph files can be edited and combined For example to plot one type of value vs another type of value If an ccx or Abaqus input file was read then it is also possible to create time his tory plots of the amplitudes AMPLITUDE in ccx or the material properties can be displayed MATERIAL in ccx 33 graph amplitude name amp graph material name mat The parameters related to datasets can also be displayed with the graph com mand graph p time DISP HID This command plots the nodal diameters used in a cyclic symmetry calcula t
76. epending entities will be deleted as well 8 100 zoom zoom lt scale gt lt pix gt lt ply gt lt p2x gt lt p2y gt This keyword is used to scale the model in the window For example zoom 2 will increase the size of the representation of the model by a factor of 2 A certain region of the model can be specified with two corner points of an imagi nary rectangle The coordinates are relative to the graphic window which has its origin at the left lower corner and as a fraction of the edge lengths For example zoom 0 0 0 5 0 5 will display the third quadrant of the window scaled by a factor of 2 74 9 Element Types Node numbering of the elements and the type numbers used in the Result For mat frd file The solvers might use different node numbering rules 1 2 node beam element be2 type 11 75 3 node beam element be3 type 12 3 node shell element tr3 tr3u type 7 6 node shell element tr6 type 8 4 node shell element qu4 type 9 TT 4 O O 8 o O O 1 5 8 node shell element qu8 type 10 4 1 2 4 node tet element type 3 78 8 10 3 5 6 2 10 node tet element type 6 8 7 8 node brick element he8 type 1 79 20 A 7 5 V A 18 6 16 15 l 14 4 11 12 dp o de 3 e lo 10 9 2 20 node brick element he20 type 4 6 node penta element pe6 type 2 80 15 no
77. eping a surface will create a body At first a copy of the first set seelsetaland copy will be created The copy of the master set is included in the second set Then the connecting lines and surfaces are created and at last the bodies The divisions of the new lines between setl and set2 is specified with the parameter div or the default is used Existing sets are extended by the copied entities if the last parameter a append is provided Several transformations are available For example scal creates a scaled copy the scaling factors fx fy fz could be chosen independently swep partl part2 scal 2 71 swep partl part2 scal 1 1 2 PO tra will create a copy and will move it away by the vector dx dy dz and the optional parameter a will assign the new entities to sets were the mother of each entity is included swep setl set2 tra 10 20 30 rot will create a copy and will move it around the axis defined by the points pl and p2 by alfa degrees the connecting lines will be arcs swep setl set2 rot p0 px 20 rad will create a copy and will move it radially to the x y or z axis or will create a spherical section if just a single point is defined swep cylinderl cylinder2 rad x 20 swep spherel sphere2 rad pPO 10 mir will create a mirrored copy The mirror plane is placed normal to the direction running from P1 to P2 and placed at P2 swep sectionl section2 mir pl p2 8 93 text text lt
78. es and sweep it in the 3rd dimension to create your geometry If features exist in the 3rd dimension only on a certain location then this feature must be included in the 2D section Then sweep the 2D section to the location were the feature starts then right to the end and at last to the end of the geometry Then delete the bodies before and after the feature You might also project the sweped sections to target surfaces if the feature is shaped in the 3rd dimension This is the approach which I often use even to generate complex 3D models For complicated models you should also consider to use a tet mesher like NETGEN 4 which can read step and generates quite nice tet meshes You can read this meshes with cgx and combine it with cgx geometry and meshes Then create 93 your boundary conditions etc You might read the native netgen format vol instead of abaqus format because this stores also the 2D meshing regions which can be used to apply boundary conditions cgx ng file vol see also mats and comp to get the basic nodes of this sets Be aware that the superfluous shell elements have to be deleted before you write your solver file But you can also create a so called stl file based on your cgx geometry and feed it to external meshers The following section explains how to do that In general hexahedra elements perform better than tets but if the mesh should be derived from a cad geometry it is o
79. esh with mateial numbers was read For example if a native netgen file 4 was read then this command will generate sets which can be used to asign boundary conditions 8 34 max max lt value gt This keyword is used to define the upper value of the scale in the menu area see Figure El 8 35 merg merg n e p 1 c s lt set gt lt gtol gt nolock This keyword is used to merge close points and nodes or equally defined enti ties The following entities are known Nodes n Elements e Points p Lines 1 Combined Lines c Surfaces s For example to merge points included in the set point set type 37 merg p point set Only entities included in the set are considered The value gtol determines the maximum distance between merged nodes and points The parameter nolock will force merging even if the dependent entities like lines are degenerated afterwards For example a degenerate line will have two equal points 8 36 mesh mesh lt set gt fast block lonly nolength noangle length angle This keyword is used to start the meshing of the model before using the mesh command the element types must be defined with the elty command Existing elements will not be deleted Therefore its possible to start cgx in the viewing mode v with a mesh alone and then create bodies and fill them with addi tional elements To delete a mesh use
80. ession 8 51 proj gt proj lt set gt lt target set gt lt shpe gt gt tra lt dx gt lt dy gt lt dz gt lt offset gt rot lt p1 gt lt p2 gt lt offset gt Prot x y z lt offset gt rad lt p1 gt lt p2 gt lt offset gt Prad x y z lt offset gt nor lt offset gt This keyword is used to project points with all related geometry or nodes onto a set of surfaces or element faces Alternative a shape can be specified as the target In consequence the set with the entities which should be moved must contain nodes and or points and the target set must contain surfaces and or element faces Several transformations are available For example tra will move points in the direction of the vector dx dy dz onto elements or surfaces included in set2 Alternatively an offset could be specified as well proj set1 set2 tra 0 0 5 0 7 rot will move points around the axis defined by the points p1 and p2 or around the x y z axis onto elements or surfaces included in set2 proj setl set2 rot p0 px 45 rad will move points radial to the axis defined by the points pl and p2 or radial to the x y or z axis onto elements or surfaces included in set2 Alterna tively a set of lines could be used instead of surfaces as the target set Then the geometry will be moved onto an imaginary rotational surface defined by these lines proj setl set2 rad x nor
81. f line s The div keyword also works on a set of lines see qadd The division controls the number of nodes created when the geometry is meshed see elty and mesh For example div all 4 attaches the division of 4 to all lines With the keyword mult or div in combi nation with a value it is possible to multiply or divide already assigned divisions div all mult 2 Or in case you need a starting point for the individual divisions you can use the option auto with the optional parameters node dist and angle Node dist is the maximum allowed distance between nodes and angle is the maximum al 27 lowed angle defined by three sequential nodes If one parameter is not fulfilled then the division is halved Default values are defined in the file cgx h div all auto Some rules must be fulfilled before a geometry is meshable For linear ele ments ie qu4 or he8 the sum of all divisions of each surface must be even In case of quadratic elements ie qu8 or he20 this sum must be divisible by 4 without residue Opposite edges of a given surface might have different divi sions For example on the left side of a given surface the division is 8 and on the right side it is only 4 But only two opposite surfaces of a body can use this feature These surfaces are called top and bottom surfaces All other surfaces of this body must have unique divisions on opposite edges 8 13 ds ds lt 1 Dataset Nr gt l
82. file gt lt setname gt lt edge file gt edg lt list file gt n e amp lt column gt lt picture xwd gt This keyword is used to read files or commands from a file Most commands can be read from a file but not all of them In general all basic commands to create geometry are understood and up to know this is the only way to read pre defined geometry or a mesh during run time To read commands from a file like pnt line inode or seta and so on type read filename this will eventually replace entities if their names were already in use To pre vent this type read filename add this forces the program to change the names which are already in use to unused ones Therefore no existing geometry will be overwritten This command is usefully to combine independent models The user might read a result file in frd format during runtime In this case the mesh and all results are deleted first and then the mesh and the results from the result file are shown This is helpful for automatic post processing in batch mode If a mesh exists it is also possible to read files written in the result format frd during runtime to define sets of nodes or elements The command read mesh frd part will create a set of the name part and all nodes and elements listed in the file mesh frd will be added to that set But this will NOT create or modify the nodes and elements All nodes and elements
83. firm Then mesh the model Use Abaqus format for the export Or if you use NETGEN use the native netgen format file extensin vol The latter will keep the surface meshing domains which can then be used to apply BC after reading with cgx See the Program Parameters section on how to do that Back in cgx delete the existing surface mesh del me and import the Abaqus tet mesh read mesh msh inp or start a new session cgx c mesh msh If the mesh is composed of several parts or if you want to add the tet mesh to an existing one then assemble all parts by reading one after the other with lread 95 Create sets of nodes faces or elements to create boundary conditions and export them with send Create the input deck for ccx with an editor and start the calculation Look at the results with cgx cgx results frd B 11 How to check an input file for ccx A quick check of a ccx input file can be done with cgx by reading the file with the option c cgx c file inp After startup all defined node element and surface sets are availabe together with internal sets which group togeter certain entities according to their purposes The following internal sets will be created if appropriate data were found bou DOF Created if BOUNDARY is found All affected nodes are stored in bou were bou DOF store just the nodes which are constraind in the related DOF number dep BOU Created if EQUATION is
84. ften more convenient to create a tetrahedra mesh as to modify or rebuild the geometry to make it meshable with hexahedra elements In this case the user can mesh the surfaces with unstructured triangles and export them in the stl format see send as a basis for an auto mesher 4 The following steps have to be done Figure 9 CAD file meshed with tet elements using NETGEN e Use the interface program to convert the cad format to fbd format ie vda2fbd cad vda gt cad fbd Sometimes the header of the vda file causes some trouble and must be modified to make the program run e Start cgx with that file cgx a cad fbd Usually some warnings appear on the screen but the program will fix that automatically triggered by a After all geometry has been read the program will merge points and 94 lines to close the volume Then all nurbs related surfaces are trimmed Finally all surfaces are rendered and the result is displayed in the main window The whole process might need some time If problems occur the user might start the program with option b instead of a cgx b cad fbd Then no automatic post processing is done and the user has to fix the geometry manually See the commands merg div qadiv rep Quite often adjacent surfaces do not use common lines Make sure the divisions match This has to be done because later on every created triangle must have three adjacent triangles Flip the surfaces in a way
85. g lines Short Format 1X 12 15 6E12 5 Long Format 1X 12 110 6E12 5 Values KEY MAT XX YY ZZ XY YZ ZX Where KEY 2 MAT XXi material property number if KEY 2 unused data 85 In case of material independent data Short Format 1X 12 15 6E12 5 Long Format 1X 12 110 6E12 5 Values KEY NODE XX YY ZZ XY YZ ZX Where KEY 1 if its the first line of data for a given node or 2 if its a continuation line NODE node number or blank if KEY 2 XX data 11 Pre defined Calculations Listing of the automatically calculated additional results 11 1 Von Mises Equivalent Stress Entity name Mises 1 OvM zV os Oy Gy Oz 02 09 672 672 672 11 2 Special Surface Stress Entity name xx yy O wa yy Tre Oyy 11 3 Principal Stresses Entity names P1 P2 P3 worstPS worstPSx worstPSy worstPSz The principal stresses are named P1 P2 P3 From the three principal stresses o the absolute maximum value will be calculated and named worstPS For ex ample if a node has the three values 100 0 and 110 MPa then 110 MPa would be shown The three principal stresses 0 da 03 are derived from the following equation Onn A Oxy Cuz nx 0 Tyx yy Oyz ny 0 Ose Oxy Ozz X nz 0 They are given by the three roots of the equation stress tensor is symmetric Oxy Oya etc g Gan Oyy dyajo 073 0yy OyyOzz C220 22 Ory Oy 2 2 2
86. he vectors 7 2 13 Toggle Add Displacement It is possible to display results on the deformed structure For example you can display a stress field on the deformed structure If you know a suitable amplification factor for your displacements then use the scal command to 17 issue this value but this can also be done later Of course displacements for the Loadcase must be available 7 3 Animate This option allows the animation of displacements See also ds and scale to use this functionality with the command line It is possible to create this sequence from just one Dataset see Start This is useful for displaying mode shapes See also Toggle Dataset Sequence to create a sequence from multiple Datasets to visualize dynamic responses 7 3 1 Start Creates a sequence of display lists to visualize displacements for example mode shapes The program recognizes displacements just by the name of the dataset This name must start with the letters DISP otherwise the animation will not start see Nodal Results Block 7 3 2 Tune Value Controls the amplitude of the animation If Toggle Real Displacements was chosen before the tune value is equivalent to the amplification of the animation 7 3 3 Steps per Period Determines how many display lists for one period of animation will be used If Toggle Dataset Sequence was chosen then these number of di
87. html help and displays this document It only works if the specified html viewer is available The default is Firefox 11 but this can be changed in the cgx h file The search path for the documentation is also defined in the cgx h file Please make sure that the documentation is in the speci fied location or change the path in the cgx h file and recompile the pro gram after the object files are deleted The default location for the html help is CalculiX cgx_X X doc cgx and CalculiX ccx_X X doc ccx for cgx and ccx respectively The html files must be downloaded directly or compiled from the latex source for this function to work properly The INSTALL file tells how to compile the latex code to html The INSTALL file is located Cal culiX cgx_X X and CalculiX ccx_X X for cgx and ccx respectively 7 13 Quit This terminates the program without a save 8 Commands This section is a reference to all commands and their parameters in alphabetic order If a command is typed the mouse pointer must be in the main window Figure 1 Only the echo of the input stream is visible in the parent xterm The keywords are not case sensitive but all command parameters are case sensitive Each reference starts with a short description of the command The following syntax is used for these descriptions Known commands and syntax arenes Keyword either uppercase or lowercase lt gt Parameter
88. ified range enq domainl newset cyl x 100 10 0 1 a will search for entities in set domain1 at radius 100 around x at x 10 with a tolerance of 0 1 All entities in range are stored in set newset 8 17 eqal eqal jbir aspr mca lt value gt 30 The keyword without parameters lists the current element quality thresholds 0 o0ff e JBIR The maximum ratio of jacobian determinants xsj between all gaus points Were xsj Vworldcoordinates Velementcoordinates and jbir xsj max xsj min e ASPR Element aspect ratio between all element sides e MCA Maximum corner angle between all element sides With parameter it sets the value of the threshold 8 18 exit exit This command terminates the program and saves the geometry if any to a file named as the input file but with the extension fbd If a file with that name exists already then this file will be saved with the new file extension fbb as a backup see also save 8 19 flip flip lt setname gt lt surf gt auto This command changes the orientation of a set of surfaces or a single surface In case of a single surface with the parameter auto all surfaces will be flipped in a way that they share a common direction in or out of a volume See also afip 8 20 font font d 1 lt value 1 6 gt This command changes the drawing font Six fonts of different heigh are avail able font
89. in a set Related entities will be moved as well For example to move a line it is necessary to include their points in the set see comp Several transformations are available For example scal will scale the entities of the set the scaling factors fx fy fz can be chosen independently and a reference point can be used move part scal 2 move part scal 1 1 2 39 move part scal 2 PO move part scal 1 1 2 PO tra will move it away by the vector dx dy dz move all tra 10 20 30 rot will move it around the axis defined by the points pl and p2 by alfa de grees move all rot p0 px 20 rad will move it radially to the x y or z axis or to a single point move cylinder rad x 20 move sphere rad pPO 10 mir will mirror the set The mirror plane is placed normal to the direction running from P1 to P2 and placed at P2 move part mir Pl P2 8 41 movi movi delay lt sec gt start stop make lt pic nr gt lt pic nr gt lt prolog gif gt clean This keyword is used to start or stop the recording of a movie After start all frames will be stored in single gif files until the stop command is issued See also the menu options Start Recording Gif Movie Use the option make to assemble the movie from the individual files An existing movie will be copied in front of a range of frames if it is specified as the last argument The range consists of the nr of the first and last picture
90. ion over the frequency the freqency is stored at the time position for this type of calculation Only few parameters are written from ccx in frd format But the user might define his own parameters when he writes data in frd format see Parameter Header Record for the format 8 25 gsur gsur lt name char lt 9 gt BLEND lt nurbs gt lt shape gt gt lt line lcmb gt lt line lcmb gt 3 5 times This keyword is used to define or redefine a surface in the most basic way see also qsur Each surface which is intended for a regular mesh must have three to five edges which might consist of a single line or a combined line see Lemb to be mesh able However the recommend amount of edges is four For example gsur 004 BLEND L002 LOOE L006 LOOC will create the surface S004 with a mathematically positive orientation indicated by the sign after the surface name The keyword BLEND indicates that the interior of the surface will be defined according to Coons or a NURBS surface murs or shape shpe is referenced It should be mentioned that only nurbs or shape related surfaces can be meshed with unstructured triangles Use a or in front of the lines or lembs to indicate the orientation These signs will be corrected automatically if necessary If the surface is intended for an unstructured mesh it is not necessary to care
91. irection from P1 to P2 by defining a spacing ratio and number of points pnt L1 0 25 3 or pnt P1 P2 0 25 3 will create 3 new points at the positions 0 25 0 5 and 0 75 times the length of the line or the distance from P1 to P2 and it is also possible to create points on the positions of existing nodes The command pnt set will create new points on the positions of the nodes included in the specified set Usually when points are defined interactive the command qpnt is used 8 50 prnt prnt se sq lt RETURN set chars gt Dn e f ip 2 Ig hb lt entity gt amp lt RETURN amplitude gt mat lt RETURN material gt This keyword is used to print the contents of a set or the definition of other entities The following entities are known Nodes n Elements e Faces f Points p Lines l Surfaces s Bodies b Nurb Surfaces S Nurb Lines L Sets se and Sequences sq To see all known sets type prnt se Or type prnt sq 44 to see all known sequential sets To see the contents of a specific set type prnt se setName To print the definition of a line type prnt lineName If an ccx or abaqus input file was read then it is also possible to print the amplitudes AMPLITUDE in ccx or the material propperties MATERIAL in ccx prnt amp amplitude name prnt mat material name Wildcards in setnames can be used to search for setnames of a certain expr
92. ith one stroke type a before and create a rectangular picking area by pressing two times the r key Both strokes define opposite corners of the rectangle To delete only one 27399 97 1 entity type before Press q to quit the command 48 It is also possible to measure distances between two pixels on the screen Just press the key w on the positions of the two pixels The distance is calculated in the scale of the displayed geometry 8 59 qdis qdis RETURN w c n p 1 g This keyword is used to measure distances between two nodes or points Move the mouse pointer over one entity and press the following key for a node n for a point p or for a center point c If the key c was pressed then the distance between the two nodes or points are given in cylindrical coordinates Here lcir is the length of the arc da the angle dr is r2 r1 If no center point was chosen then the distance and its xyz components are given in the Cartesian system But in addition the cylindrical distances around the origin and around the xyz axis are 39 ny also given Press q to quit the command e dist global distance e dx dy dz distance in the three Cartesian directions da global angle dax day daz angle around x y z dr global radius difference e drx dry drz radius difference around x y z It is also possible to measure distances between two pixels on the screen Just press the key w on th
93. keyword is used to split lines and to create points on surfaces included in setl where they cross surfaces from set2 8 90 steps steps lt value gt This keyword is used to define the number of different colors in the post processor mode The default is 21 8 91 surf surf lt name char lt 9 gt lt line lcmb gt lt line lcmb gt lt line lcmb gt gt lt line 1cmb gt This keyword is used to define or redefine a surface It is a more convenient way to define a surface than the command ggsur but it requires 3 4 or 5 edges lines or lembs otherwise the surface will not be created The most convenient way to define surfaces is to use the command qsur If the name of the surface should be automatically generated then just type instead of a name 8 92 swep swep lt set gt lt set gt scal lt fx gt lt fy gt lt fz gt lt PO gt lt div gt a tra lt dx gt lt dy gt lt dz gt lt div gt a rot lt p1 gt lt p2 gt lt alfa gt lt div gt a Prot x y z p lt pnt gt lt dr gt lt div gt a rad lt p1 gt lt p2 gt lt alfa gt lt div gt a Prad x y z p lt pnt gt lt dr gt lt div gt a mir lt P1 gt lt P2 gt lt div gt a This keyword is used to sweep entities into the next higher dimension Sweeping a point will create a line sweeping a line will create a surface and swe
94. l to get the values on particular nodes But the position of nodes or points are also given in Cartesian and cylindrical coordinates see Figure 5 axyz are the 3 angles around x y and z rxyz are the 3 radii around x y and z In a second row the sets to which the picked entity belongs are listed To see details of entities move the mouse pointer over the entity and press one of the following keys for Nodes n Elements e Faces f Points p Lines 1 Surfaces s Bodies b Nurb Surfaces S and for Nurb Lines L To catch more than one entity with one stroke type a before and create a rectangular picking area by pressing two times the r key Both strokes define opposite corners of the rectangle To catch only one entity type i Hold before Press q to quit the command It is also possible to measure distances between two pixels on the screen Just press the key w on the positions of the two pixels The distance is calculated in the scale of the displayed geometry 8 63 qfil gt qfil lt radius gt RETURN w 717 q The command creates a fillet line a radius between two lines who intersect After the command name the value for the fillet radius has to be specified Then for each pair of selected lines a fillet of this value will be created Select lines with the 1 key Press q to quit the command Currently it works only for straight lines A curved line can be split and the part which sh
95. l to detect the begin and end of all lines If end points are deleted the line is also deleted Therefore special care with end points is necessary The attribute q works only for elements With this attribute only elements which do not pass the element quality check are displayed plot eq all The threshold for the element quality is defined with Eqal The attribute v works only for nodes plot nv setl will display the nodes in set set1 with their values This is only meaningful in post processing mode see Dataset how to assign values to nodes To plot additional entities see plus 8 48 plus plus n e gt 1 gt p 1 1 s b S L sh 8 gt La la Ppl ga v gt lt set gt WIR PEPE lb ly lem Pi This keyword is used to display the entities of an additional set after a plot command was used see also minus Further details are explained in section plot 8 49 pnt pnt lt name char lt 9 gt lt x gt lt y gt lt z gt lt line gt lt ratio gt lt times gt lt P1 gt lt P2 gt lt ratio gt lt times gt lt setname containing nodes gt This keyword is used to define or redefine a point There are four possibilities to define a point To define a point just with coordinates 43 pnt pl 11 1 2 34 or pnt 11 1 2 34 where the name is chosen automatically It is also possible to create points on a line or in the d
96. le list file txt The created set name is always the name of the file If a pixel file in xwd format of a certain geometry is available it can be in cluded as a background picture The user can then create geometry based on this picture read pixelfile xwd and delete it with del pic 8 77 rep rep lt set gt This keyword is used to refresh entities of a certain set This is done automati cally but with one exception The rendering of the interior definition of surfaces must be triggered manually with this command The rendered surfaces can be displayed with plot or plus using color i 8 78 rnam rnam lt set gt lt set gt This keyword is used to rename a set 8 79 rot rov u d r 1 c lt angle gt Px x y y 17 2 7 This keyword is used to rotate the view direction to the model For example rot u 10 58 will rotate the view direction 10 degrees upwards The meaning of the other letters is down d right r left 1 clockwise c The remaining letters will rotate the view into a pre defined direction For example the user will look in x direction after the command rot x and against the x direction with the command rot x and so on 8 80 save save This keyword is used to save the geometry if any to a file named as the input file but with the extension fbd If a file with that name exists already then this file will
97. me gt gt lt Dataset name gt lt entity name gt lt parameter name gt gt y P lt first Dataset Nr gt lt last Dataset Nr gt This keyword is used to create time history plots of nodal values For this a sequence of datasets see Toggle Dataset Sequence is scanned The values of the pre selected nodes stored in the referenced set will be written to a file called graph out A gnuplot command file will be written called graph gnu and executed The resulting file graph ps will be automatically displayed with the postscript viewer The default is ghostview but this can be changed in the cgx h file before the program is build 32 A set with the nodes of interest must be created see qadd before a graph can be drawn This set has to be of the sequence type if the parameter 1 length is used to plot values along the length of a set of nodes graph seq length A sequence can be created with the qseq command The length is calculated as the sum of the distances between successive nodes Since version 1 8 there are two ways of operation One way is to specify the Datasets and the entity as parameters of the command graph set time DISP D1 which will display the displacement D1 of nodes in set vs the dataset time of all DISP Datasets The first and the last dataset can be specified optionally For the traditional way a sequence of datasets must have been s
98. ments This is necessary in inviscid calculations to prevent the fluid to penetrate the walls Results from a previous calculation can be written in the solver input format for further calculations parameter ds tmf etc For example temperatures for thermal mechanic fatigue analysis or velocities pressures and thermals for a restart of a cfd calculation B 8 How to map surface loads Values at surface nodes can be mapped interpolated from a second mesh with the send command This second mesh data source or master is usually available as a result file from a previous calculation The read command with the add parameter can be used to include this file in the current model Solver input files inp and result files frd can be used as a data source The command will add an offset to the nodes and elements so that existing nodes and elements will not be overwritten The original mesh is the target or slave of the mapping process The mapping process will create a file with the mapped values and will add the values to the dataset The mapped values can be visualized by selecting the mapped dataset and entity and then by plotting the slave elements or faces with plot fv slave An example of the necessary commands for the mapping process is listed below Define a set with the slave nodes or faces For example with qadd slave comp slave do to extend the set by the reference
99. must exist and will not be changed It is also possible to read an ccx input file with loads boundary conditions and sets read filename inp The loads and boundary conditions are stored in automatically created sets which start wit a leading For example the ccx command BOUNDARY will create bou in cgx The ccx set contents are stored in cgx sets The load values are stored in Datasets If the parameter add is used then exist ing node or element numbers are not overwritten and the program choses new numbers In case NETGEN is used for meshing then the edges which are generated by NETGEN can be included for modifications 97 read filename edg will create beam elements based on the defined edges When the modifications are done the beam elements can be exported in the NETGEN edge format with the send setname stl command see also How to deal with cad geometry If a file with the numbers of nodes or elements are not available in the result format frd then a so called list file could be read instead In such a file either numbers of nodes or elements can be defined The numbers found in a spec ified column is interpreted as a node or element number If n is specified the numbers are interpreted as nodes and if e is specified the numbers are interpreted as elements For example read list file txt e3 will define a set storing names of elements from the third column of fi
100. n PART dat file and go to the end gt then add RETURN e the mesh file now works with Samcef Another interesting way add for each nam file an input in your bank file input part dat 100 input LOAD nam input ANCHORAG nam etc 11 IMPORTANT REMARK After it s possible to modify the mesh into BACON extrusions etc that s why the element hypothesis is not added at the end of the file gt you must define the element definition AFTER the last mesh modification HYP MINDLIN 12 Comments if you ve any remark or any comment or any suggestion to improve this export format please send a mail to paul carrico_at_free fr C Simple Examples The following listings show simple geometry input files The pictures show this geometry together with their labels and the generated mesh The models were made based on three points Two points defined one axis of rotation and one was the basis of several swep and merge operations In case of the sphere the surfaces on the pole had to be redefined using only three lines per surface C 1 Disc PNT py 0 00000 1 00000 0 00000 PNT pO 0 00000 0 00000 0 00000 PNT P001 0 70711 0 00000 0 70711 PNT P003 0 00000 0 00000 1 00000 PNT P005 0 70711 0 00000 0 70711 PNT P006 1 00000 0 00000 0 00000 PNT P009 0 70711 0 00000 0 70711 PNT POOA 0 00000 0 00000 1 00000 PNT POOG 0 70711 0 00000 0 70711 PNT POOI 1 000
101. nside the menu area Then press the left mouse button and move the mouse pointer over the menu entry Dataset then continue to the right A sub menu pops up showing all available datasets with a leading number and sometimes followed by a dataset value usually time or frequency and a dataset description Move the mouse pointer over a dataset you are interested in and release the left mouse button The dataset is now selected A results Entity must be chosen to see the values in the drawing area This Dataset might also contain automatically calculated values like the v Mises stress and the maximum principal stress see Pre defined Calculations and Result Format See also the command ds to control the functionality with the command line 14 MENU AREA DRAWING AREA Hardcopy lPs Hardcopy HELP wel Hardcopy beamp frd Figure 2 structure of the main menu 7 1 1 Entity To view data from the dataset its also necessary to specify the entity i e dx for a displacement Dataset It works in the same way as for selecting the dataset but instead of releasing the left mouse button over a Dataset continue to the bottom of the sub menu to Entity Continue from that item to the right and release the mouse button when the pointer is over an entity Now the data is displayed in the drawing area 7 2 Viewing In the following sections changing properties and styles of the dis
102. ntended for batch mode See also Viewing for the menu controlled functions edge triggers the display of the model edges were e elem triggers the display of the element edges They are deselected with the additional parameter off e surf and volu are used to display the structure either only by it s outer skin surf or by drawing all elements volu e front and back define which side of the structure should be drawn Either the side which faces the user or the back side If the back side is displayed then internal structures are visible e vec triggers the vector mode All vector entities like displacements are displayed with arrows pointing in the direction of the vector and with a length proportional to the value of the vector See Toggle Vector Plot for a detailed description of the equivalent menu function e disp will show the deformed structure based on a formerly selected dis placement dataset no entity must be selected See Toggle Add Displacement for a detailed description of the equivalent menu function 8 98 volu volu lt set gt This keyword is used to calculate the volume and the center of gravity of a set of volume elements If an ccx input file with density data was read then the mass will be also calculated 73 8 99 zap zap lt set gt This keyword is used to delete all entities of a set and the set itself All d
103. o convert from pre 1 5 versions start the program with the oldbias option 8 4 body body lt name char lt 9 gt lt surf1 gt lt surf2 gt lt surf1 gt lt surf2 gt lt surf3 gt lt surf4 gt gt lt surf5 gt lt surf6 gt lt surf6 gt This keyword is used to define or redefine a volume body Each body must have five six or seven surfaces to be mesh able However it is sufficient to specify just the top and the bottom surfaces But if surfaces with 3 or 5 edges are involved then this surfaces have to be the top and bottom sur faces This is also true if surfaces have different line divisions at opposite edges The missing surfaces between the top and bottom surfaces will be created automatically if they do not already exist they will always have 4 edges with the same division on opposide edges But all needed lines must exist More precisely only single lines or existing combined lines lcmb can be detected The user must define the missing surface if just a chain of lines and no lemb is defined between two corner points of the top and bottom surfaces before he can successfully use the body command It is a more convenient way to define a body than the command gbod but exactly 2 or all surfaces must be specified otherwise the body will not be created The most convenient way to define bodies is to use the command qbod For example
104. o define and send some constrains to the file system To constrain degrees of freedom dof of selected nodes use the parameter spc in combination with the numbers of the constrained dofs and optionally a forced deflection For example send hinge abq spc 123 will constrain the translational degrees of freedom of the nodes in set hinge Or send hinge abq spc 12356 will leave just one rotational degree of freedom unconstrained And send move nodes abq spc 1 0 1 will move the nodes in set move nodes by 0 1 in direction 1 send move nodes abq spc ds1 el will use the values from dataset nr 1 and the entity nr 1 for the forced dis placements and send move nodes abq spc nor 0 1 will force the nodes included in set move nodes by 0 1 in the normal direc tion normal to the element faces The components of the vectors at the node positions can be scaled individually facl 3 A subsequent calculation with ccx will move the mesh accordingly After solving the deformed mesh can be used as a new mesh for further calculations With this procedure geometric variations are possible without manipulating the geometry morphing The parameter slide in combination with one additional parameter will create equations that force the selected nodes to move only in a plane If the additional parameter s is specified then the specified nodes will be attached to their element faces All nodes of the affected element faces have to be
105. or post processing 98 CGX to ASTER export format i e HOWTO use this export format The export format allows to export meshes and sets from CGX to Code Aster for linear and quadratic 1D 2D and 3D elements For this just type send all aster for exporting a complete mesh The file will have the mail extension Type send set aster nam for exporting the GROUP NO node group and the GROUP MA mesh group which compose the set The file will have nam extension The later item is particularly useful to apply boundary conditions onto DOF pressure force displacement temperature etc Since of these bound ary conditions are coded with EFICAS in the input file I thought it was not necessary to develop another features than the 2 previous ones B 16 Remarks Concerning Samcef From Paul CARRICO 2006 04 17 BASIC TUTORIAL FOR HOWTO USE THE SAMCEF EXPORT FORMAT pa I Definition of the points pnt pO 0 0 0 pnt pi 100 pnt p2 0 1 0 pnt p3 210 plot pa all ANNAN WN 2 Definition of the lines K plus 1 all K qlin link the points pO p1 p3 p2 p2 pO 3 Creation of the first surface K qsur 4 Creation of 10 between pO amp p1 and 11 between p1 amp p3 sets K qadd lo K qadd 11 4 Creation of the 2 other surfaces K swep 10 11 tra 0 3 0 K swep 11 lib tra 3 0 0 5 Creation of the SYMETRY set K plot s all K qadd SYMETRY use both a and rr keys to select all the surfaces 6 Cre
106. ould be used for the fillet can be transformed to a straight form with the qlin command s and x key strokes Figure 6 shows on the right side the initial situation and on the left side the created fillet The command has also shifted point P002 to the left Always the end point of the first selected line closest to the intersection is moved The second line gets a new end point 8 64 qflp qflp RETURN w Pe PePe i pa 50 rz X Figure 5 qenq Definition of the cylindrical system This keyword is used to invert the outer and inner side the orientation of shell elements and surfaces The orientation of shell elements or surfaces can be seen by the interior color The outer face reflects light if the face is dark grey it is the back side If Toggle Culling Back Front was selected before then both sides are illuminated To flip the orientation of a surface and all related shell elements select either a shell element with the e key or if the illuminated surfaces are displayed see rep how to do that select the surface with the s key To see the effect on the elements immediatelly they must have been displayed with the plot command If only elements are in the database flip them with the e key The a key has a different meaning than usually If pressed before a selection then a so called auto mode is activated It makes sense for volumes were a vector pointing in or out
107. parameter crp follows send set abq crp 1 2900 1 then the mesh plus all temperatures with the necessary solver context for creep calculations is written Here the value for timefact scales the time values of the Datasets speed is a reference value for scaling static loads see option sta and writefreq limits the output to the result file Special cases are the cfd solvers Duns Isaac and OpenFoam The bound ary patches are an integral part of the mesh So it is necessary to specify all boundary patches when writing the mesh All free surfaces of the mesh must 61 be specified This is an example for OpenFoam send all foam cyclic cycl cyc2 cx patch in patch out wall wall will write the so called polyMesh description to the file system After the send command the set all with the mesh is specified then the format foam then cyclic boundary conditions cyclic cyc1 cyc2 cx between set cycl and cyc2 of the axi symmetric case around x cx then boundary conditions of type patch for set in patch in then boundary conditions of type patch for set out patch out and boundary conditions of type wall for set wall wall wall The symmetric boundary conditions base type cyclic can be axi symmetric c around x y z or rectangular r in direction of x y z Only for OpenFoam and in the rectangular Cartesian case also a vector pointing in the direction of the symmetry can be specifie
108. pe of entities when selecting them with the mouse pointer The command line is preferable in situations where pure mouse operation is not convenient i e to define a certain value or for batch controlled operations Therefore most commands are only available over the command line The stream coming from the keyboard is echoed in the parent xterm but during typing the mouse pointer must stay inside the main window Otherwise the commands will not be recognized by the program The following special keys are used Special Keys ARROW UP previous command ARROW DOWN next command PAGE UP entities of previous set if the last command was plot or plus or the previous Loadcase PAGE DOWN entities of next set if the last command was plot or plus or the next Loadcase 7 Menu The main menu pops up when pressing the left mouse button inside the menu area Figure 2 It should be noted that there are equivalent command line functions for most of the menu functions This can be used for batch controlled post processing Next the entities inside the main menu will be explained 7 1 Dataset Datasets are selected with the menu item Dataset A dataset is a block of nodal values These could be displacements due to a linear analysis or for a specific time step during a nonlinear analysis It could also contain other values like stresses strains temperatures or something else To select a dataset make sure that the mouse pointer is i
109. played struc ture are explained See the command view to control the functions with the command line 15 7 2 1 Show Elements With Light This is the default view of the mesh if the program was started in viewing mode If used any animation will be interrupted and no values are displayed 7 2 2 Show Bad Elements This option presents elements which have a negative Jacobian value at least at one integration point The solver ccx can not deal with those elements So far only TET and HEX elements are checked These elements are stored in the set called NJBY See also the command eqall 7 2 3 Fill This is the default mode and forces the element faces to be rendered 7 2 4 Lines The edges of the element faces are displayed This is especially useful to see into the structure to find hot spots in the displayed field With Toggle Move Z Zoom and qcut a more detailed analysis can follow For very dense meshes switch to Dots 7 2 5 Dots The corners of the element faces will be displayed This is especially useful if values inside the structure need checked 7 2 6 Toggle Culling Back Front This removes the faces of volume elements for all elements or for the surface of the structure depending on the state of Toggle Surfaces Volumes With this option the user can visualize internal structures like cracks or a core of a hollow structure For shell elements the behavior
110. point or a node should be moved manually along a defined plane see qpnt To define the plane move the mouse 99 oa 9 pointer over the first entity and press n if its anode or a p if its a point Then define the next two entities in the same way Press q to quit the command It is also possible to measure distances between two pixels on the screen Just press the key w on the positions of the two pixels The distance is calculated in the scale of the displayed geometry 46 8 54 qbia qbia RETURN aw Pa Pir Pepee 10 99 1 q This keyword is used to change the bias of a line The bias defines a coarsening or refinement of the mesh along a line The number defines the ratio of the length of the first element to the length of the last element at a given line It works by pressing a number between 1 and 9 when the mouse pointer is at the position of a line To define numbers between 10 and 99 press the space bar when the mouse pointer is at the position of a line and then the number To select more than one line with one stroke type a before and create a rectangular picking area by pressing two times the r key Both strokes define opposite corners of the rectangle To select only one line type i before Press c to oF oa 3 change the direction of the bias Press q to quit the command see alse bia 8 55 qbod qbod lt name gt optional RETURN
111. q lt set gt lt set gt rec lt value gt _ lt value gt _ lt value gt _ gt cyl x y z lt r value gt lt axis value gt gt tol VPA Ph 71 This command is used to locate entities from a certain set first provided set and stores them in the second set The following entities are handled nodes points lines surfaces But surfaces can only be identified if the command rep lt setname gt was issued before In case of nodes with related values results it will also determine the highes or lowest value in the specified range The coordinates might be given in cartesian coordinates option rec or cylindrical coordinates option cyl Some cartesian coordinates might be omitted to spec ify an infinite range The key has to be used in this case The mode is defined by the keys i individual a all h high l low were h and 1 will search the highest or lowest value in range This value will also be written to a file for automatic processing purposes For example enq all newset rec 10 _ 100 0 1 i will search for entities in set all at the given location x 10 y _ infinite range triggered by the key z 100 with a tolerance of 0 1 and only the closest entity of all kinds of entities are stored in set newset With the a key all in range would be stored The key h or would trigger a search for the highest or lowest value in the spec
112. r to mark a set as open seto set All newly defined or redefined entities will be members of all open sets See setc how to close an open set 8 87 setr setr lt set gt PP Pe PpePP PEPEPEPE se sh lt name gt This keyword is used to remove entities from a set see also qrem The entity will not be deleted It is just not longer a member of that set To remove entities from the set dummy type setr dummy p pl p2 This will remove the points pl and p2 from the set The following entities are known Nodes n Elements e Points p Lines 1 Surfaces s Bodies b Nurb Surfaces S Nurb Lines L other sets se and shapes sh The program will auto matically determine the type of the entities if not specified but then the names must be unique 8 88 shpe gt shpe lt name gt pln lt P1 gt lt P2 gt lt P3 gt cyl con sph This keyword is used to create a shape which can be used to define the inte riour of surfaces or to be used as a target for projections see also proj A plane shape is defined with the parameter pln followed by the names of three points shpe H001 pln P1 P2 P3 Other types of shapes are planned but not implemented so far cyl con sph If automatic name generation is desired then use instead of a name See also qshp for the mouse controlled definition of shapes 70 8 89 split setr lt seti gt lt set2 gt This
113. rced displacement between the two intersecting surfaces is necessary This forces the dependent nodes to move to the independent face Two modes are available send dep indep abq areampc presfit f simulates sticking friction and with the option s send dep indep abq areampc presfit s 67 works for sliding conditions The user might request a certain value for the press fit if the overlapping of the mesh do not represent the necessary distance send dep indep abq areampc presfit s0 06 will move the dep nodes 0 06 in the normal direction of the independent faces works also with option f Additional nodes are generated and can be used to request the reaction forces on the dependent nodes They are stored in a set named Nidep set name ind set name Two files are produced The one with the equations has to be included in the model definition section and the boundary file in the step section Also it is possible to define so called gap elements and related control commands These elements will connect parts if they are closer as a certain distance For example if the distance is zero contact The command send dep indep abq gap 1 0 0 will connect the nodes in the set dep and indep with gap elements but only if they match each other in the direction 1 Based on the same mathematics as the areampc functionallity is the map ping or interpolation of values of surface nodes For example send dep indep abq surfmap ds1
114. rwin dar and Tochnog tcg but only ccx Abaqus is fully supported Good support is also provided for ansys and nastran If no further parameter follows then just the definition of the nodes and elements will be written send all abq will write the mesh in the format used by Abaqus and the CalculiX solver If the parameter ds followed by the dataset nr is provided send set abq dsl then the values stored in Dataset 1 are written if abq is specified then it works only on scalar datasets like temperatures for frd the ds parameter w o any further values forces cgx to write all datasets but w o the internally calculated ones If the parameter tmf follows send set abq tmf then the mesh plus all temperatures with the necessary solver context for tmf calculations is written If the parameter sta follows send set abq sta 2900 then the mesh plus all temperatures with the necessary solver context for a static calculations is written Here the value for speed is a reference value for eventual numerical values in the TEXT Block of the Datasets in the result file frd file see Nodal Results Block A scaling factor will be determined based on the reference value here a ref speed of 2900 and the individual TEXT Block values factor speed 2 refspeed 2 This factor is used in AMPLITUDE commands which will also be written and will be used to scale static loads which are referenced in the STEP data If the
115. selected For example you type send sur abq slide s and this should attach the node with the node nr 1 to a plane parallel to the surface of the corresponding element face This element uses the node 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 and 8 where 1 2 3 and 4 are on the surface of the mesh The program will detect this element face and constrain the node only then if the nodes 2 3 and 4 were also included in the set sur The detected elements or faces of volume elements will be assigned to the set So it is possible to check 63 the detected elements Instead of providing a set with the necessary nodes you might instead provide a set with shell elements or and faces of volume elements The nodes will be derived from them In most cases this is the most convenient way A special case which works probably only in ccx abaqus might give wrong results is triggered by the c parameter It behaves as for the s parameter but works for cycsym calcs A new set with new nodes will be created with the name lt set gt COPY which has to be used in the cycsym definition in ccx instead of lt set gt In addition eqations are specified which connect the new nodes with the original ones in normal direction of the element faces If nodes should slide radially to the y axis then use ry send sur abq slide ry or use ty if the nodes should move only tangential to the y axis In both cases the axial movement is still permitted
116. splay lists will be interpreted as one period see Time per Period 7 3 4 Time per Period Determines how many seconds per period 7 3 5 Toggle Real Displacements To see the correct displacement of each node The animation can be controlled with the help of the mouse 7 3 6 Toggle Dataset Sequence Creates a sequence of display lists to visualize values of a sequence of Datasets The Datasets must use the same type for example only displacements or only stresses To activate the animation after you have selected Toggle Dataset Sequence choose the first Dataset to be displayed then the second and then the last one Finally choose the entity The first two datasets define the spacing between the requested datasets and the third one defines the last dataset to be displayed The last two selections of datasets can be omitted Then all datasets 18 which use the same name starting from the selected one will be used The command ds provides the same functionality 7 4 Frame Adjusts the drawing box 7 5 Zoom Use this command to zoom into a rectangular section of the window After this option is chosen use the mouse to select the opposite corners of a rectangle The display will zoom in on the rectangular area Note the rectangle is never shown on the screen see also zoom 7 6 Center Used to choose a new center point for the structure After this option is chosen pick ei
117. t 1X 2 1515 Long Format 1X 2 10110 Where KEY 2 NODE node number Additional lines must follow if more nodes are used Last Record Form KEY Format 1X 3 10 5 Parameter Header Record Purpose Stores informations related to datasets ie bondary conditions and loads They should consist of a keyword and a value Form KEY CODE STRING Where KEY 1 CODE P 83 STRING Keyword Value ie FORCE 1000 Format 1X 1 P A66 10 6 Nodal Results Block Purpose Stores values on node positions 1 Record Format 1X 100 C 6A1 E12 5 112 20A1 12 15 10A1 12 Values KEY CODE SETNAME VALUE NUMNOD TEXT ICTYPE NUMSTP ANALYS FORMAT Where KEY CODE SETNAME VALUE NUMNOD TEXT ICTYPE NUMSTP ANALYS FORMAT 2 Record 100 C Name not used Could be frequency time or any numerical value Number of nodes in this nodal results block Any text Analysis type O static 1 time step 2 frequency 3 load step 4 user named Step number Type of analysis description Format indicator O short format 1 long format Format 1X 12 2X 8A1 215 Values KEY NAME NCOMPS IRTYPE Where KEY NAME NCOMPS IRTYPE 4 Dataset name to be used in the menu Number of entities 1 Nodal data material independent 2 Nodal data material dependant 3 Element data at nodes not used 3 Type of Record and more Format 1X 12 2X 8A1
118. t 2 Dataset Nr gt lt n Dataset Nr gt a gt e lt entity nr gt up to 4 times s lt value gt This keyword is used to define a Dataset and an Entity The Dataset might be a positive number which has to match the nr in the Dataset menu or an I lower case L which is interpreted as the last available Dataset or a negative number Then it is interpreted as the last minus the specified number For example Iclel will display the first entity of the first Dataset Iclel will display the last Dataset To start the animation of the second to last Dataset assuming displacements right away Ic la Also sequences can be defined Ic2410e1 Here the 1st entity of each second Dataset is selected The selection starts at the second and ends at the 10th dataset If more than one entity is defined then a vector plot will be displayed If a 4th entity is defined then this entity will be used for the basic color plot 28 lc 2 4 10 e 12 13 14 15 In addition it is possible to scale the entities of the specified datasets lc 1 s 1 2 will scale all entities of dataset 1 by a factor of 1 2 8 14 elem elem lt nr gt lt firstNode gt lt lastNode gt be2 be3 tr3 tr6 gt qu que he8 he20 This keyword is used to define elements based on nodes and its type see section Element Types in the appendix for the correct node order For example
119. t set gt RETURN w Pe PP PEL Pe PEPP re 171 PS b This keyword is used to erase entities from a set see also setr To remove entities move the mouse pointer over the entity and press the following keys for Nodes n Elements e Faces f Points p Lines 1 Surfaces s Bodies b Nurb Surfaces S and for Nurb Lines L To catch more than one entity with one stroke type a before and create a rectangular picking area by pressing two times the r key Both strokes define opposite corners of the rectangle To catch only one entity type i zg before Press q to quit the command It is also possible to measure distances between two pixels on the screen Just press the key w on the positions of the two pixels The distance is calculated in the scale of the displayed geometry 54 8 71 qseq gt qseq lt set gt RETURN n p RETURN nr This keyword is used to define a sequence The sequence might consist of nodes or points A sequence is nothing else than a set which keeps the selection order of the entities qseq nodeset will store all selected nodes selected with the n key in the order in which they were selected This set might be used for a subsequent graph command Point sequences are used to define splines If qseq is typed without a setname then an existing line has to be selected with a nummerical keystroke or the space bar followed by two numbers
120. the key w on the positions of the two pixels The distance is calculated in the scale of the displayed geometry 55 8 74 qsur gt qsur lt name gt optional RETURN ow a bh 71 3 Yr 299 3 ig y Ig 2g h This keyword is used to create a surface see also gsur The user might specify a name in the command line or by picking an existing surface with the s key If the surface is supposed to be meshed with unstructured triangles element type tr3u it is sufficient to select all lines with the I key lowercase L This can be done either in the all mode press a or individual mode press which is default Then generate the surface by pressing the g key Such surfaces allow holes in it If the surface is not plane it will need to reference an embedded NURBS surface see murs It should be noted that this kind of mesh might be extruded in the 3rd dimension by using the swep command Otherwhise such surfaces can not be used to define meshable bodies volumes Only external meshers might use the triangles as a geometry description see How to deal with cad geometry For the definition of a regular meshable surface three to five edges must be defined To create a surface move the mouse pointer over the first line of the first edge and select it with the 1 key number one If more than one line is necessary to define the first
121. the user had only requested volume elements This surface elements shell elements are grouped according to the mesh region to which they belong This circumstance is very helpfull to identify regions for boundary conditions The shell elements in these regions will be stored in sets if the command mats is used The setnames will be shown with the command prnt se If the shell elements will only be used to identify the common nodes of them and the faces of the underlying volume elements Do the following for the region set shellElemSet e comp shellElemSet do plot e shellElemSet plus n shellElemSet qdel e delete the shell elements e comp shellElemSet do e plus f shellElemSet Now you see the faces of the volume elements and the nodes in this region They can be used for BC and loads definitions see send If you want to delete all shell elements from the mesh you might write the model in abq format and read it again in a new session cgx c all msh In this case a separate set for each element type is automatically created and you might just delete the elements of a certain set with the qdel command or you just write the propper set in abq format after you included also the nodes in the set see comp B 13 Remarks Concerning Duns and Isaac If you intent to create a 2D mesh for the cfd code duns or isaac you have to watch out that all surfaces are created in the same order That me
122. ther a node a point or the corner of an entity To easily find the element corners the function Toggle Element Edges is triggered automatically see also qcnt 7 7 Enquire Used to investigate parameters like the value and the position of a certain node of the model Pick a node after this option is chosen To easily find the element corners the function Toggle Element Edges is triggered automatically see also qenq 7 8 Cut Used to cut the structure and to create a section of new elements and nodes Pick three nodes after this option is chosen To easily find the element corners the function Toggle Element Edges is triggered automatically see also qcut 7 9 Graph Used to generate a 2D plot The option Length will provide a plot value over distance between nodes The option Datasets will provide a plot value over Dataset nr and the option Time will provide value over Time For the later two options it is necessary to first create an animation with either the command ds or the menu option Toggle Dataset Sequence see also graph and How to generate a time history plot To easily find the element corners the function Toggle Element Edges is triggered automatically 66 19 7 10 Orientation 7 10 1 x View To look along the x axis 7 10 2 x View To look against the x axis 7
123. tively created geometry Option a awaits the same format as option b but merging defining of line divisions and the calculation of the interior of the surfaces is done automatically and the illuminated structure is presented after startup This should be used if the commandfile was generated by an interface program which convertes cad data to cgx format for example vda2fbd With option a and b the program will start also if no file is specified An input file for the solver can be read with option c Certain key words are known and the affected nodes or elements are stored in sets For example the default set s bou dof store nodes which are restricted in the corresponding degree of freedom and the set s dep dof and ind dof store dependent and independent nodes used in equations A special case is OpenFOAM The results are organized in a directory struc ture consisting of a case containing time directories in which the result files are stored The user must call cgx using the case directory cgx foam case The program will then search the time directories The time directories must con tain a time file to be recognized Or in other words each directory in this level containing a time file is regarded as a result directory To convert fbd files created with pre 1 5 versions start the program with the oldbias option This will modify the bias parameters of lines 12 6 Input Devices 6 1 Mouse The mouse is used
124. to manipulate the view point and scaling of the object inside the drawing area Figure 1 Rotation of the object is controlled by the left mouse button zoom in and out by the middle mouse button and translation of the object is controlled by the right mouse button Inside the menu area the mouse triggers the main menu with the left button In addition the mouse controls the animation of nodal values The animation will stop if the mouse pointer is not in the drawing area but will start again if the pointer enters the drawing area This can be prevented by pressing the middle mouse button while the mouse pointer is in the menu area Pressing the right button will release the next frame A frozen animation can be released by pressing the middle button The previous frame can be reloaded by pressing the middle mouse button twice and the right button once while the mouse is in the menu area MENU AREA LCS STRESS 1001 entity Mises i 1 408 03 min 3 31e 00 1 40e 03 DRAWING AREA A Saba 1 27e 03 20e 03 1 13e 1 07e 03 1 00e 03 9 34e 02 8 67e 02 COORDINATE 8 01e 02 SYSTEM 7 35e 02 6 68e 02 6 02e 02 5 35e 02 4 69e 02 03e 02 DRAWING MODE RS SURFACE VOLUME 2 7 Ostos 2 03e 02 Y Ze 02 7 07e 01 S FILE NAME lavcmrforce_he20 fvi Figure 1 structure of the main window 13 6 2 Keyboard The Keyboard is used for command line input and specifying the ty
125. ust contain all nodes which should be glued and the set indep should contain all nodes of the elements surfaces to which the dep nodes should be glued The numbers 123 are the degrees of freedom which will be connected t will create a thermal connection The c triggers the correction of the position of the dependent nodes to a position on the surface of the independent elements highly recommended u would pre vent the correction The 1 will be the identifier for the equations if the format is nas nastran In case the format would be ans ansys then the 1 would be the number of the first equation No number is required for abq abaqus and calculix A special case is considered with the slide option in combination with the areampc option For example if the mesh of a turbine blade and a disk should be connected to each other then a sliding condition between this parts is neces sary The command send dep indep abq areampc slide will connect the nodes in the set dep to element faces described by nodes in cluded in the set indep but only in the direction perpendicular to a plane defined by nodes of the dep set Therefore all dep nodes and all indep nodes must lie in the same plane and will slide in the same plane Another special case is considered with the presfit option in combination with the areampc option For example if a cylindrical press fit should be simulated then a fo
126. w PEPE PP Pre Pe Pg Igal This keyword is used to create a body see also gbod and body The user might specify a name in the command line or by picking an existing body with the key b Otherwise the program chooses an unused name It is possible to create the body out of five to seven surfaces which are needed to define a body or just of two opposite surfaces but then these two surfaces must be connected on their corner points by lines To be more precise only single lines or existing combined lines lcmb will be detected If a combined line would be necessary but does not exist then the user should define a surface using this lines which will create the necessary combined line Other missed surfaces will be created automatically To catch more than one surface with one stroke type a before and create a rectangular picking area by pressing two times the r key Both strokes define opposite corners of the rectangle Type s to select surfaces To catch surfaces individually type i before its also the default After selecting exactly six or two opposite surfaces press g to generate the body Press q to quit the command or u to undo the last action It is also possible to measure distances between two pixels on the screen Just press the key w on the positions of the two pixels The distance is calculated in the scale of the displayed geometry 8 56 qcnt gt qcnt
127. will move points in a direction normal to the target surface onto surfaces included in set2 An offset might be specified proj setl set2 nor 0 7 If a point does not hit any surface from the target set then it will not be moved 8 52 qadd qadd lt set seq gt RETURN Lwa Pi Pre in Pe ei Ppl sb SIP h Pg es 2u gt This keyword is used to add entities to a set see also seta and jseqa A set will not keep the sequence in which the entities were selected The command fqseq has to be used if this sequence should be maintained To add entities move the mouse pointer over the entity and press the following keys for Nodes n Elements e Faces f Points p Lines 1 Surfaces s Bodies b Nurb Surfaces S Nurb Lines L and for Shapes h To catch more than one entity with one stroke type a before and create a rectangular picking area by pressing two times the r key Both strokes define opposite corners of the rectangle To catch only one entity type i before Press q to quit the command or u to undo the last action It is also possible to measure distances between two pixels on the screen Just press the key w on the positions of the two pixels The distance is calculated in the scale of the displayed geometry 8 53 qali qali RETURN w Pp PR Pa This keyword is used to align a plane defined by three points or nodes with the screen working plane This is useful if a
128. you will need only the end points of lines With the option e edges only end points are included in the set 8 8 copy copy lt set gt lt new_set gt scal lt fx gt lt fy gt lt fz gt lt pnt gt a tra lt dx gt lt dy gt lt dz gt a rot lt p1 gt lt p2 gt lt alfa gt a 24 Prot x y z p lt PNT gt lt dr gt a rad lt p1 gt lt p2 gt lt alfa gt Prad x y z p lt PNT gt lt dr gt a mir lt P1 gt lt P2 gt a This keyword is used to create a copy of a set see seta about sets Geometry nodes and elements with their results can be copied The copy of results is usefull to evaluate additional sectors in case of a cyclic symmetric calculation The copy is included in the new set Existing sets are extended by the copied entities if the last parameter a append is provided Several transformations are available For example scal creates a scaled copy the scaling factors fx fy fz can be chosen independently Several transformations are available For example scal creates a scaled copy the scaling factors fx fy fz can be chosen independently copy partl part2 scal 2 PO copy partl part2 scal 1 1 2 PO tra will create a copy and will move it away by the vector dx dy dz and the optional parameter a will assign the new entities to sets were the mother of each entity is included copy setl set

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