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Find model weight

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ebdoep22

Aerospace
Jan 14, 2013
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Been having an issue solving this for a while. I need to find the weight of my structure. I have included the density of all materials. The model is a 2D plane strain model. When I used .inp files for my studies I would load the nodes and element connectivity matrix in Matlab, find the area of each element and multiple by the density, sum it up and I would have the system weight. But now I am using Python scripts with my model and would like to skip the step of sending information to Matlab to find the weight. Any idea how to do this?

Thanks,

Brady
 
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