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by makkemal
Mon Sep 10, 2018 4:10 pm
Forum: FEM
Topic: Plotting results per element
Replies: 14
Views: 4426

Plotting results per element

I have gotten back to some development work. Adding some additional reading features to the dat file reader I am looking for a way to show result per element. Attached is a file with 12 elements Demo_fea.fcstd For the elements [37. 38. 39. 40. 41. 42. 43. 44. 45. 46. 47. 48.] I would like to plot a ...
by makkemal
Thu Feb 15, 2018 12:05 pm
Forum: FEM
Topic: beam analysis with beams in z-direction
Replies: 119
Views: 26552

Re: beam analysis with beams in z-direction

I just tried the beam cube above posted by Bernd in the latest master. When writing out the INP I get the following error. raceback (most recent call last): File "C:\Freecad\Freecad_compile\Mod\Fem\PyGui\_ViewProviderFemSolverCalculix.py", line 262, in write_input_file_handler fea.set_anal...
by makkemal
Mon Jan 08, 2018 9:27 am
Forum: FEM
Topic: Newbie - "Preparing input files" error
Replies: 12
Views: 3253

Re: Newbie - "Preparing input files" error

I can run your test problem
Please check in your FEM preferences that you are pointing to an existing ccx.exe I have see this behaviour before if that file does not exist
by makkemal
Wed Jan 03, 2018 9:58 am
Forum: FEM
Topic: Fem constraint contact
Replies: 147
Views: 48136

Re: Fem constraint contact

I have not used this in a while
Still works fine on latest master
contact.PNG
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I attache example based on latest master

Regards
Michael
by makkemal
Sun Dec 17, 2017 4:27 pm
Forum: Help on using FreeCAD
Topic: Face multi selection tool wanted
Replies: 12
Views: 3013

Re: Face multi selection tool wanted

FEM has been looking for a tool like this for a while.
Please post the code you use to do the demo

Regards
Michael
by makkemal
Thu Dec 14, 2017 5:48 am
Forum: CfdOF / CFD
Topic: integration of snappyhexmesh from cfd
Replies: 8
Views: 4336

Re: 2 layer wall: temperature calculation

They have mesh regions built in for cfmesh which creates hex mesh
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They also have a nice selection filter for surfaces.
A feature I have been missing in FEM
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The only problem I see for FEM is the Wedge elements
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by makkemal
Wed Dec 13, 2017 3:07 pm
Forum: CfdOF / CFD
Topic: integration of snappyhexmesh from cfd
Replies: 8
Views: 4336

Re: 2 layer wall: temperature calculation

Maybe see how you can use cfmesh from the CFD workbench
https://forum.freecadweb.org/viewtopic. ... 6&start=70
This mesher may be useful for FEM
by makkemal
Thu Nov 16, 2017 12:11 pm
Forum: Help on using FreeCAD
Topic: FCInfo Macro
Replies: 121
Views: 37923

Re: FCInfo Macro

The macro also does nothing when I run it. It used to work about 6 months ago OS: Windows 10 Word size of OS: 64-bit Word size of FreeCAD: 64-bit Version: 0.17.12595 (Git) Build type: Release Branch: master Hash: 8c7bb0cd551cf11551ff71d716a16211c6d5e13d Python version: 2.7.8 Qt version: 4.8.7 Coin v...
by makkemal
Wed Oct 11, 2017 4:42 pm
Forum: FEM
Topic: Display principal stresses
Replies: 46
Views: 12685

Re: Display principal stresses

Very useful feature. I am testing a bit it seems to work fine