.mpcf file
The .mpcf file is an OptiStruct ASCII format results file.
File Creation
Creation of this file is controlled by the MPCFORCES I/O Option.
File Contents
| Result | Description |
|---|---|
| Multi-point force of constraint | Multi-point force of constraints for linear static analysis. |
File Format
The file is divided up by iteration. Output from each iteration starts with a line in the
following format:
| ITERATION | Iteration_number | ||||||||||
- Data
- Description
- ITERATION
- Keyword denoting the beginning of a new iteration.
- Iteration_number
- Iteration number.
Each iteration section contains the multi-point force of constraint for each node,
for which this output format was selected, in each linear static subcase. Each
subcase section is given the following header:
| MPC forces for Subcase | Subcase_id | ||||||||||
- Data
- Description
- Subcase_id
- User-defined subcase ID to which the mpc forces apply.
MPC force information is then provided, for each node, in the
following format:
| Node_id | x-force | y-force | z-force | x-moment | y-moment | z-moment | |||||
- Data
- Description
- Node_id
- Node identification number.
- x-force
- The x-translational component of the force at the node.
- y-force
- The y-translational component of the force at the node.
- z-force
- The z-translational component of the force at the node.
- x-moment
- The x-rotational component of the force at the node.
- y-moment
- The y-rotational component of the force at the node.
- z-moment
- The z-rotational component of the force at the node.
Comments
- The I/O Option Previously Supported Results controls the frequency of output for analytical results during an optimization.