*createnodesandspotweldelems
Creates nodes and spotweld elements between two surfaces on the selected lines at a specified spacing or density with an element type, coordinate system, and property ID.
Syntax
*createnodesandspotweldelems surf1_markmask surf2_markmask tol createplot configval syst code num_nodes entities markmask biasstyle biasingintensity spacing offset_type endoffset *property
Type
HyperMesh Tcl Modify
Description
Creates nodes and spotweld elements between two surfaces on the selected lines at a specified spacing or density with an element type, coordinate system, and property ID.
Inputs
- surf1_markmask
- First or multiple surfaces in the mark.
- surf2_markmask
- Second surface in the mark, if given.
- tol
- Search tolerance to identify the surfaces.
- createplot
- Creates a plot.
- configval
- Element type configuration value.
- syst
- Local coordinate system switch.
- 0 - Do not build systems.
- 1 - Build systems.
- code
- Code for one or all surface options.
- 0 - All surfaces.
- 1 - One surface.
- num_nodes
- Number of nodes on the line (for Density option only).
- entities
- Line entity.
- markmask
- Marked lines.
- biasstyle
- 1 - Linear.
- biasingintensity
- 0.0 - Equal spacing.
- spacing
- Spacing between weld elements.
- offset_type
- 0 - End offset.
- endoffset
- End offset from the edge (= value).
- *property
- Name of property collector. Used to retrieve property.
Examples
To create five spotwelds (bar2 elements) between surfaces, using the all surfaces option,
within a tolerance of 0.01 along four marked lines at equal spacing. Elements are created
without a coordinate system and property collector
name_prop.
*createnodesandspotweldelems(2,2,0.01,1,60,0,0,5,lines,1,
1,0.0,0.00,0,0.0,"name_prop")To create the same with an end offset value of
2.0,
*createnodesandspotweldelems(2,2,0.01,1,60,0,0,5,lines,1,1,0.0,
0.00,0,2.0,"name_prop")