structural modelling

shankartayal · Post by **shankartayal** » Sat Mar 05, 2011 11:47 pm

I have a output text file which includes coordinates of all the nodes specified by me in the code:
Content of the file is like :

Node: 1
Coordinates : -2500 -2500 0

Node: 2
Coordinates : -1500 -2500 0

Node: 3
Coordinates : -500 -2500 0
...
...
...

Node: 123
Coordinates : -1500 1500 3000
Disps: 0 0 0 0 0 0

Node: 124
Coordinates : 1500 1500 3000
Disps: 0 0 0 0 0 0

how can i display my model taking coordinates from this output file???
Please help me .

jonej907 · Post by **jonej907** » Thu Aug 25, 2011 11:29 pm

Thankyou for posting this information.

mofaz · Post by **mofaz** » Fri Aug 26, 2011 4:22 am

I suggest you to follow these steps:
1- Copy the information to Word.
2- Press Ctrl+f and go to Replace window.
3- Now replace unnecessary word such as “coordinate” and ":" with " ".IF you want to use the OSP you also should replace "Node" with "node".
4- Copy the modified file to a Notepad file and again copy from Notepad to Excel.
5- It’s necessary to use the special paste "Use Text Import Wizard" to paste properly into Excel.
6- Now try to move the x,y,z coordinates into the same rows of nodes.
7- Select the column of nodes and Use the "filter" command. Now only select the node.
8- You see now the right format of nodes. Copy it to a Notepad file and Save as it with tcl Format.
9- Now run the OSP and open the prior file.
Remember that same procedure will be used to import “element” information.

Good Luck.

Davistrash · Post by **Davistrash** » Fri Sep 23, 2011 3:21 pm

Structural modelling follow on the structure of object of the system which contain a class. This is useful steps for the structural modelling.

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