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Good point about consistency with scale/copy. I'm reluctant to change old features after the beta though. Please put new change requests in another thread so this one can be about the beta version. Yes, automatically remeshing areas with more error…
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Pa and J/m^3 are the same thing but I agree it would be clearer if the more intuitive units appeared. This can lead to complications where people who see it from different points of view have a different idea about what's the obvious way to write th…
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Good suggestion. Importing material data is something I'm already hoping to do for a future version.
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Thanks for the feedback Sergio and apadzak. For "Use the same directory as LIML file", i'll try to clarify that and the error message. Most people should leave it turned off. For angles, I hope to avoid having to enter numbers. You can zoom in and…
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Cheers prop_design. And thanks for your help on the gyroscopic forces.
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For anyone else reading this. It turned out to be a number format problem that happens with some localization settings in Windows. It's fixed in version 5. You can also work around it by changing the number format in Windows to use dots for decimal …
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Hello AndresLT. This is a recently discovered bug caused by Mecway incorrectly reading decimal separators for some culture settings. Please either: - Change your computer's number format to use decimal points or - Install the new version 5 beta fr…
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Yes, this is nice to see some integration even without an API! To answer your concerns: - Beam force diagrams - not currently - Beam releases - rotational DOF release is called "Flexible joint on beam". For translational DOF release, you can write …
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Could be. Can you please try solving the attached model only with CCX. It's a simple thermal analysis so it should produce different field variables - temperature and heat flux instead of displacement and stress. If it's still showing displacement a…
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This situation can be tricky. I usually delete them one by one - click an element, press delete, repeat. But in your case that might take a long time. It's likely that the elements are numbered in two groups of consecutive numbers. In that case, i…
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Thanks. Could you please open that same .frd file that you opened in CGX but using Mecway instead (File->Open, not Solve with CCX)? This check will tell me if it's a fault in the .frd reading code or something related to running the external solv…
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One way is to turn on "Show node and element numbers" and look for element numbers on the surfaces. See attachment for how it will appear. Alternatively, if the mesh is small enough, use Mesh tools -> Node/element list -> Elements tab and lo…
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Thanks for the suggestions. Both of them are already on my list and have been made before, so that helps my chances of doing them. But probably not for version 5.
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Yep, you can use the spring-damper mechanical material type on a line2 element in Mecway to make a SPRINGA element for CCX as shown in the attachment.
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I see.
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Hi apadzak Could you please try opening the .frd file in the MecwayInstance64574871\Ccx folder you attached in a previous message? That seems to be a correct file and I can open it OK, so it looks like CCX is working correctly, but apparently your …
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Hi Tim I hope to do something like that for future versions, but probably not v5. A few people have asked for it. Can you please clarify point 4) What are the use cases for using only some of the DOFs? Can that be satisfied by connecting the singl…
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That works fantastically kwip! This looks like it'll be a good solution until we somehow get to the underlying cause. Thanks for all the work you've done on this.
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This is kind of curious. The .frd file is in there under the Ccx folder in your attachment and I can open it OK and it seems to be a proper .frd file. Can you please try opening it and see if that works? Also, could you have another go at the tabl…
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I tried the batch file with one of them, not sure if it was yours or CalcuilXForWin's from Sourceforge and it didn't help. Did it work for you?
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This problem with some binaries happens when there's no output window. So these binaries work in a command prompt window but Mecway doesn't create a window for it and it fails. Version 5 will include a fix for this, either showing an output window o…
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I see the windows layout problem and should have it fixed for version 5.
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.sta type output is on my list but I can't promise. Also, it might end up parsing the increment and iteration counts from the main output instead.
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Hello Apadzak, could you please post the .frd file that Mecway is opening to display those incomplete results? You can find it in %temp%\MecwayInstance#######\Ccx after solving. There is a problem that causes results not to be read correctly which …
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There's a further bug. Opening .vol files through File->Open or ->Import scales the dimensions wrong. They're scaled down by 1000. Please use the Netgen .vol format with care until version 5 where it'll be fixed.
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v3 looks OK.
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It turns out this problem happens with File->Import but works OK with File->Open which VMH used. This is a bug and thanks for finding it prop_design. As a workaround, you could open it, then save as .liml, then import into another model.
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Automesh 3D should do it. Some ideas: Make sure it's a single closed solid with no cracks or internal surfaces. (View -> Open cracks) All the elements must be oriented the same way (+W axis all outward or all inward). You can try surface mesh …
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Thanks kwip. This is a great resource. I can confirm that ccx_2.9_MT.exe solves the problem of "*ERROR in openfile: could not open file XXXXXX.dat" which happens with the CalculiXforWin 2.9 on SourceForge.net when run from within Mecway. It's also…
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This feature that will be in the next version (v5) for static analysis. You have to define the electric field using electric potentials or charges. I'll contact you privately about it.
