Hi
I like to import thermal results from another software into patran to define a temperature boundary condition. The results are in csv format, with x, y, z coordinates and the temperature.
the attached zip contains an edited csv and patran session file will illustrate one way to do this.
put them both in a folder and run the ses file.
ISSUES: your xyz and temp data contains duplicate points with different temperatures.
When creating a file for Nastran as I did here, it is important that real numbers are formatted for Nastran with a "." in them. Edit the csv file in excel to turn the data into grids and temp data for the grids.
Manually create a mesh to utilise the data points, as it was a regular arrangement this was very quick. Done as a 2D mesh that was then extruded.
Equivalence the nodes to get rid of coincident ones and create a plot of the temperature. This is then used to create a continuous FEM field.
A new bit of geometry is created and meshed and the field used to apply temps to this.
The temps on the two models are then plotted in separate windows.
the attached zip contains an edited csv and patran session file will illustrate one way to do this.
put them both in a folder and run the ses file.
ISSUES: your xyz and temp data contains duplicate points with different temperatures.
When creating a file for Nastran as I did here, it is important that real numbers are formatted for Nastran with a "." in them. Edit the csv file in excel to turn the data into grids and temp data for the grids.
Manually create a mesh to utilise the data points, as it was a regular arrangement this was very quick. Done as a 2D mesh that was then extruded.
Equivalence the nodes to get rid of coincident ones and create a plot of the temperature. This is then used to create a continuous FEM field.
A new bit of geometry is created and meshed and the field used to apply temps to this.
The temps on the two models are then plotted in separate windows.
