*linedraglinetoformsurface
Drags a trimmed line along a trimmed line to create a surface, and optionally, prepares it for immediate use within the automesher. It can also identify a region in the shape of a line-dragged surface for the automesher to use under the mesh without surface option.
Syntax
*linedraglinetoformsurface sectionlinelist sectionnodelist draglinelist dragnodelist refplane using_default_vector
Type
HyperMesh Tcl Modify Command
Description
Drags a trimmed line along a trimmed line to create a surface, and optionally, prepares it for immediate use within the automesher. It can also identify a region in the shape of a line-dragged surface for the automesher to use under the mesh without surface option.
Inputs
- sectionlinelist
- The ID of the list of lines to be dragged.
- sectionnodelist
- The list ID of the list of zero or two nodes which lie on the lines in the sectionlinelist which will be used to trim the line during surface creation.
- draglinelist
- The ID of the list of lines to drag along.
- dragnodelist
- The list ID of the list of zero or two nodes which lie on the lines in the draglinelist which will be used to trim the line during surface creation.
- refplane
- The orientation plane used to orient the section lines to the drag lines.
- using_default_vector
- 0 - Use plane normal vector
Example
To drag lines 3 and 4 along lines 2 and 1 using the given plane, creating a surface but no elements:
*surfacemode(4)
*createlist(lines,1) 3 4
*createlist(nodes,1)
*createlist(lines,2) 2 1
*createlist(nodes,2)
*createplane(1,0.0000,1.0000,0.0000,0.0000,0.0000,100.0000)
*linedraglinetoformsurface(1,1,2,2,1)
The *surfacemode(4) directive tells HyperMesh not to pass the information on to the automesher for element creation.
*createlist() and *createplane() are required for this command.
Errors
None.