FEM MeshDisplayInfo
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Context menu on mesh object → Display FEM mesh info |
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Introduced in version |
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See also |
FEM tutorial |
Description
Displays basic statistics of existing mesh - number of nodes and elements of each type. Particularly, total number of the following features is shown:
- Nodes,
- Edges,
- Faces,
- Polygons,
- Volumes,
- Polyhedrons,
- Linear edges,
- Linear faces,
- Linear volumes,
- Quadratic edges,
- Quadratic faces,
- Quadratic triangles,
- Quadratic quadrangles,
- Quadratic volumes,
- Quadratic hexahedrons,
- Quadratic tetrahedrons,
- Quadratic prisms,
- Quadratic pyramids.
Usage
- Create finite element mesh first (using one of the available techniques).
- Select the mesh in the Tree view.
- Right click on it and choose the
Display FEM mesh info option.
- To close the FEM Mesh Info window, click OK.
Scripting
# setup some model with a fem mesh to print information from
from femexamples.ccx_cantilever_faceload import setup
setup()
# print the fem mesh information
print(App.ActiveDocument.Mesh.FemMesh)
will output the following result:
>>> print(App.ActiveDocument.Mesh.FemMesh)
========================== Dump contents of mesh ==========================
1) Total number of nodes: 228
2) Total number of edges: 0
3) Total number of faces: 0
4) Total number of polygons: 0
5) Total number of volumes: 79
6) Total number of polyhedrons: 0
7) Total number of linear edges: 0
8) Total number of linear faces: 0
9) Total number of linear volumes: 0
10) Total number of quadratic edges: 0
11) Total number of quadratic faces: 0
12) Total number of quadratic volumes: 79
12.1) Number of quadratic hexahedrons: 0
12.2) Number of quadratic tetrahedrons: 79
12.3) Number of quadratic prisms: 0
12.4) Number of quadratic pyramids: 0
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- Materials: Solid, Fluid, Nonlinear mechanical; Material editor
- Element geometry: Beam (1D), Beam rotation (1D), Shell (2D), Fluid flow (1D)
Constraints
- Electrostatic: Potential
- Fluid: Initial velocity, Fluid boundary, Flow velocity
- Mechanical: Fixed, Displacement, Plane rotation, Contact, Transform, Force, Pressure, Self weight, Bearing, Gear, Pulley
- Thermal: Initial temperature, Heat flux, Temperature, Heat source
- Solve: Calculix tools, CalculiX, Elmer, Z88; Equations: Heat, Elasticity, Electrostatic, Flux, Flow; Solver: Solver control, Solver run
- Results: Purge, Show; Postprocessing: Apply changes, Pipeline from result, Warp filter, Scalar clip filter, Function cut filter, Region clip filter, Line clip filter, Stress linearization plot, Data at point clip filter, Create functions
- Utilities: Clipping plane, Remove clipping planes; Mesh clear, Mesh display info
- Additional: Preferences; FEM Install, FEM Mesh, FEM Solver, FEM CalculiX, FEM Concrete; FEM Element Types

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