Gather results during parametric study

[rebro]

Hello everybody,

I am working on a quite big parametric study simulating effects of different loads and fiber orientation in the material on a carbon fiber prop-shaft.

I already have a phyton script for a parametric study, however I have problems with extracting the results.
I want to have results over a circumferential path around the shaft. (about 60 elements)

Is it possible to do it with "gather" function? I think only one node/element can be selected with "gather" command.

I have considered a for/while loop, but the results will be written separately and I want a single table.
I cannot use phyton scripts for each of the .odb files after the study because the number of them will be too high. (I have 5 parameters, that are changing - I am dealing with cca 2000 simulations)

Has anyone done this before or has been dealing with this problem?

Thanks for your help,

Best regards,

Gasper

 

[quisten]

I've written some scripts that has dealt with quite a few variations. (Not nearly as many though).

If the geometry is constant, just get the element id's - either by using a path or a set that contains the element id's.

Regardless of the number of ODBs, it would still be viable to traverse each odb and drop the desired results into
a global table. Run time is the only concern. Test it on a few first to reduce run-time while developing.

Hint:
globalResultTable = []
for odbName in glob.glob('*.odb'):

odb = openODB(odbName)​

odbResult = getResultFromOdb(odb)​

globalResultTable.append(odbResult)​

odb.close()​

writeResultsToFile(globalResultTable)

Hope this helps....

Ebbe