×
INTELLIGENT WORK FORUMS
FOR ENGINEERING PROFESSIONALS

Log In

Come Join Us!

Are you an
Engineering professional?
Join Eng-Tips Forums!
  • Talk With Other Members
  • Be Notified Of Responses
    To Your Posts
  • Keyword Search
  • One-Click Access To Your
    Favorite Forums
  • Automated Signatures
    On Your Posts
  • Best Of All, It's Free!
  • Students Click Here

*Eng-Tips's functionality depends on members receiving e-mail. By joining you are opting in to receive e-mail.

Posting Guidelines

Promoting, selling, recruiting, coursework and thesis posting is forbidden.

Students Click Here

Jobs

List of node values from Designstar or Geostar

List of node values from Designstar or Geostar

List of node values from Designstar or Geostar

(OP)
Is there a straightforward way to get the underformed node coordinates into a spreadsheet.

It seems very easy to do it with the node displacements, but I need the original undeformed coordiantes also.

Geostar let me list the coordinates, but when I tried to copy them into excel, the node number and coordinates all imported into the same cell.

(What I'm trying to do is model the deformed shape in autocad. Once I copy have them in Excel, I can copy them into autocad and all the points will plot. Howver, I'd be interested in other suggestions.)

Mark

RE: List of node values from Designstar or Geostar

Mark,

I think an easy way to do this is to use one of the export ASCII translator formats. If you export your mesh as a .geo format, you should be able to snip out the node list with the undeformed co-ordinates and import into EXCEL as a CSV file.

I hope this helps.

Regards,

ERT
http://www.akeng.com

RE: List of node values from Designstar or Geostar

Have you tried creating a .gfm file (type "gform" in the command line)? This is essentially a text file with all of your model info. Scroll down to the parts which begin with ND, 1,... These are the node numbers and their xyz coordinates. I'd open the file with Word, cut off the stuff above and below the ND lines, then copy the rest and paste it into Excel. You might need to use the "pase special" command to get each comma delimited number into its own cell. Or maybe save the file, then open/import it into Excel. Haven't done it for a while but I know its fairly easy to do if you poke around for a bit.

jt

Red Flag This Post

Please let us know here why this post is inappropriate. Reasons such as off-topic, duplicates, flames, illegal, vulgar, or students posting their homework.

Red Flag Submitted

Thank you for helping keep Eng-Tips Forums free from inappropriate posts.
The Eng-Tips staff will check this out and take appropriate action.

Reply To This Thread

Posting in the Eng-Tips forums is a member-only feature.

Click Here to join Eng-Tips and talk with other members!


Resources