Model.icelementcreate

Model.icelementcreate()

Creates an IC element. Model.addicconnectivity() and Model.modifyicelement() can be used to add additional details or modify the element.

Example

Create an IC element and update the independent node to ID 15, and dependent nodes to ID [16,17,18,19] with DOF’s [123, 345, 1234, 123456]

import hm
import hm.entities as ent

model = hm.Model()

# Create an IC element
model.icelementcreate()

model.addicconnectivity(
    entity=ent.Element(model, 1),
    inode_entity=ent.Node(model, 15),
    dependency_array=[[16, 17, 18, 19], [123, 345, 1234, 123456]],
)