Thanks for your answer. My question was probably unclear however. I know how to define a rigid body with Calculix. I was wondering what would be the necessary changes to be able to define a Rigid Body within Freecad. It would be needed: - to select faces or solid belonging to the rigid body. This is...

Hi, I would like to enrich the definition of non linear materials. So I would like to dynamically modify the properties of the non linear material data. The code would be something like this: class _FemMaterialMechanicalNonlinear: "The FemMaterialMechanicalNonlinear object" def __init__(se...

Hi,

In some situations, in order to avoid conflicts between adjacent faces where boundary conditions are defined, it would be nice to have the possibility to exclude edges from the selection of a face. I think this is not possible today. Is it correct ?

Thanks,

Sodelo

Hi, I would be happy to have the possibility to create rigid bodies since this is useful in many situations (for example to simulate forming: the punch and the mould are most of the time considered as rigid) and lower the cost of the simulation (since mechanical equations are not solved for the rigi...

Yes, these are the only changes. Here is a simple example. Please note I have chosen user defined time step control since I wanted to be sure results would be available for several time increments. However, I suggest to remove the "DIRECT" command since in that case, the automatic time ste...

Correction to the importation of PEEQ. Only the last time increment was taken into account.

2hex.png It is however necessary to have 2 independent volumes. So you have to create a small cutting volume at the boundary. I think this option has a lot of potential because you could isolate a zone of the part which is difficul to mesh and mesh it with tets. Then you glue the connecting surface...

Hi, I spent some time playing with GMSH in particular to explore the possibilties in terms of mesh transitions and connections with other types of elements. Indeed if hex mesh are easy to create for simple geometries, sometimes it is not possible or not easy to create all the necessary subdivisions....

OK,I will make a proposal asap.

BR

Sodelo

Simple but efficient!
It would be nice to be able to rename the input file as well.

Sodelo