*CE_ConnectorSeamCreateUsingLines
Create seam connectors at specified locations by line list with certain rules.
Syntax
*CE_ConnectorSeamCreateUsingLines entitytype entitymark density spacing linkentity linkmark ent_state ce_rules ce_le_rule tol_flag tolerance group param1 param2
Type
HyperMesh Tcl Modify Command
Description
Create seam connectors at specified locations by line list with certain rules.
Inputs
- entities
- Types that specify location of connectors (currently only "lines").
- markmask
- The mark of lines.
- density
- Split the line into this number of evenly-spaced points.
- spacing
- Split line into points with this distance between them.
- entity
- Entity type to be added to the connector as a link.
- surfs
- comps
- entitymark
- Mark of entities to add to the connector as links.
- ent_state
- Link elements or geometry.
- 0 - geometry
- 1 - elements
- ce_rules
- Rule to specify how a link entity is to be added to a connector.
- 0 - None
- 1 - User select
- 2 - Proximity
- ce_le_rule
- Rule that specifies how an entity is to be remembered by the connector.
- 0 - None
- 1 - Use ID
- 2 - Use name
- tol_flag
- Specifies if tolerance value is applicable.
- 0 - Use default.
- 1 - Use specified value.
- tolerance
- Specified to add entities only with in the given tolerance from the specified connector (same as search radius in fe realize panel).
- group
- Specifies if the individual connectors created from continuous line segments must be
grouped to behave as a single connector.
- 0 - Not grouped
- 1 - Grouped
- param1
- For future use; only "0" is currently valid.
- param2
- For future use; only "0" is currently valid.
Examples
To create 2 seam connectors at the locations of line 1 and 2 to link components 3 and
4:
*createmark(Lines, 1) 1, 2
*createmark(Comps, 2) 3, 4
*CE_ConnectorSeamCreateUsingLines(Lines, 1, 5, 0.0, Comps, 2, 1, 1, 1, 1, 10.0, 1, 0, 0.0)This command is outdated, and *CE_ConnectorCreateByMark() is recommanded to be used for creating seam connector.
A created seam connector is displayed as a line with cylinder like icons at each of the test points (at the specified spacing) with the closest components added to it. The total number of layers supported by seam connector is two.