3D tabular pressure distribution

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1) Mechanical has the ability to define a spatially distributed pressure distribution in 1 dimension by using tabular input. This is available by choosing Function of Coordinates from the distribution submenu in the Pressure definition.

2) Mechanical has the ability to define a spatially distributed pressure distribution in 3 dimensions using a symbolic function.


Does anyone one know of a demo option, mnf manipulation or any other "cheat" to allow me to define a spatially distributed pressure distribution in 3 dimensions using tabular input. (The interpolated over entity option only allows a bilinear distribution in two dimensions and is not sufficient. I need to define a very complicated distribution.)

It is obvious that Mechanica can handle complicated 3D spatially distributed loads because of 2) above. It should not be an impossibility for Mechanica to interpret a 3 dimensional tabular distribution of the same.

Thanks.

Joe Colich
joseph.m.colich@boeing.com
Boeing - STL