Skip to content

FEM_FemMesh2Mesh.md

Latest commit

 

History

History
63 lines (43 loc) · 2.18 KB

FEM_FemMesh2Mesh.md

File metadata and controls

63 lines (43 loc) · 2.18 KB
Raw
  • GuiCommand: Name:FEM FemMesh2Mesh MenuLocation:Mesh → FEM mesh to mesh Workbenches:FEM SeeAlso:FEM tutorial

FEM FemMesh2Mesh

Description

This tool converts surfaces of 3D elements of a selected FEM mesh to mesh, or converts 2D FEM mesh to mesh. Internally it picks FEM mesh element faces which are unique (not shared by two elements) and uses them to create faces of a mesh. Optionally it allows to create a deformed mesh caused by the action of the defined forces. This is done by adding the displacement of the FEM results to the mesh nodes (scale of the displacement can be set by Python).

Usage

  1. Select a FEM mesh object.
  2. Optionally also select the FEM results.
  3. There are several ways to invoke the command:
    • Press the FEM mesh to mesh button.
    • Select the Mesh → FEM mesh to mesh option from the menu.

Scripting

Note: The parameter scale was (v1.0) . For older versions of FreeCAD omit it from your code.

When you just require the displacement scale factor, check your mesh object name and the scale factor in the following code:

import femmesh.femmesh2mesh
mesh_obj = FEMMeshGmsh  # the name of your mesh object
scale = 5  # displacement scale factor
out_mesh = femmesh.femmesh2mesh.femmesh_2_mesh(FreeCAD.ActiveDocument.mesh_obj.FemMesh, FreeCAD.ActiveDocument.CCX_Results, scale)
import Mesh
Mesh.show(Mesh.Mesh(out_mesh))

The cantilever example:

from os.path import join
the_file = join(FreeCAD.getResourceDir(), "examples", "FemCalculixCantilever3D.FCStd")
fc_file = FreeCAD.openDocument(the_file)
fem_mesh = fc_file.getObject("Box_Mesh").FemMesh  # do not remove the _
result = fc_file.getObject("CCX_Results")
scale = 1  # displacement scale factor
from femmesh import femmesh2mesh
out_mesh = femmesh2mesh.femmesh_2_mesh(fem_mesh, result, scale)
import Mesh
Mesh.show(Mesh.Mesh(out_mesh))

{{FEM Tools navi}}

documentation index > FEM > FEM FemMesh2Mesh