*imprint_pointchain
Imprints chains of points to the mesh.
Syntax
*imprint_pointchain option1=<value1> option2=<value2> … option=<valueN>
Type
HyperMesh Tcl Modify Command
Description
Imprints chains of points to the mesh.
Inputs
- baseMark=<mark_id>
- The ID of the mark containing the input entities. Valid values are 1 and 2.
- baseType=<value>
- The type of the entities on which the points will be imprinted on. Valid values are elements and components.
- isHard={<value>}
- The list of values indicating if a point will be retained in the final mesh (1) or not (0). The number of values in the list should match the number of points across all the chains.
- numChains=<value>
- The number of chains to imprint.
- numPoints=<value>
- The list of number of points in each chain. The number of values in the list should be equal to numChains.
- points=<value>
- The x, y, z coordinates of each of the point in each of the chain
- saveToUserList=<value>
- If set to 1, the element IDs representing the imprinted lines are placed on the user mark.
Examples
To imprint two chains of points with the first chain having 5 points and the second chain
having 3 points respectively. The total number of points are 5 + 3 = 8, and each point has
x, y, and z coordinates so you need to supply 3 times 8 = 24 real values following the
points argument. Certain points needed to be marked as hard, hence the
isHard argument is supplied with 8 entries of 1 or 0 values.
*createmark elements 1 displayed
*imprint_pointchain baseType=elems baseMark=1 numChains=2 numPoints= "5 3" points="8.16239357 16.63461494 0.44266832 8.16239357 10.38461494 0.44266832 8.16239357 4.13461494 0.44266832 1.91239357 4.13461494 0.44266832 -4.33760643 4.13461494 0.44266832 20.66239357 4.13461494 0.44266832 14.41239357 4.13461494 0.44266832 8.16239357 4.13461494 0.44266832" isHard="1 0 1 0 1 1 0 1"Errors
Incorrect usage results in a Tcl error. To detect
errors, you can use the catch
command:
if { [ catch {command_name...} ] } {
# Handle error
}Version History
2022.2