Lets say I have a very large model with a large number of load cases, and I am generating envelope stress plots over various combinations of these load cases. Just making one envelope plot can take many minutes for large model. Then once I have this plot on my screen if I just make a small change to something like the title or the fringe range, the entire envelope process apparently happens again which is very time consuming and frustrating. So one way around this is to create a new result case that has the enveloped stress data in it. Then making those stress envelope plots and modifying the plot parameters is much faster. My question is, once I have generated my own result sets, either from envelope plots or other mathematical operations, is there a way to save these custom result sets to a new h5 file so I can easily load these custom results in future Patran sessions?
There isn't any way to export an h5 file from Patran currently. The closest you can get right now is to export to a Patran 2.5 neutral results file. This can be done via Utilities/Results/Result Utilities, using the options Write/Elements (or Nodes)/PATRAN2 File:
Neutral results files can be imported into other Patran dbs using File/Import with Object: Results:
Thanks for the info. I was more looking for a PCL command to do this. Surely, it must be possible to do this with a couple of PCL commands. Could you please provide the PCL commands for this, or should I open an official support case?