NAME

CAE::Nastran::Nasmod - basic access to nastran models

SYNOPSIS

use CAE::Nastran::Nasmod;

# create object of a nastran model
my $model = CAE::Nastran::Nasmod->new();

# import content from a nastran file
$model->importData("file.nas");

# filter for GRIDs
my $model2 = $model->filter(["", "GRID"]);

# print to a file
$model2->print("file2.nas");

DESCRIPTION

import a nastran model from files, filter content, extract data, overwrite data, write content to file.

API

new()

creates and returns a new and empty nastran model

# create a new Nasmod
my $model = CAE::Nastran::Nasmod->new();

importData()

imports a Nastran model from file. it only imports nastran bulk data. no sanity checks will be performed - duplicate ids or the like are possible.

# define options and filter
my %OPTIONS = (
    cards => ["GRID", "CTRIA"],         # fastest way to reduce data while importing. only mentioned cardnames will be imported. the values in 'cards' match
                                        # always without a trailing anchor => "CTRIA" matches "CTRIA3" and "CTRIA6"
    filter => ["", "", 10],             # only the content passing this filter will be imported. same dataformat as in filter().
    maxoccur => 5                       # stops the import if this amount of entities has been imported.
)

# create object of a nastran model
my $model = CAE::Nastran::Nasmod->new();

# adds all bulk data of a file
$model->importData("file.inc");

# adds only the bulk data of the file, that passes the filter
$model->importData("file2.inc", \%OPTIONS);

filter()

returns a new Nasmod with only the entities that pass the whole filter. A filter is an array of regexes. $filter[0] is the regex for the comment, $filter[1] is the regex for column 1 of the nastran card, $filter[2] is the regex for column 2 ... A nastran card passes the filter if every filter-entry matches the correspondent column or comment. Everything passes an empty filter-entry. The filter-entry for the comment matches without anchors. filter-entries for data columns will always match with anchors (^$). A filter-entry may be an array with alternatives - in this case only one alternative has to match.

# filter for GRID (NID=1000)
my @filter = (
    "",                   # pos 0 filters comment:  entities pass which match // in the comment. (comment => no anchors in the regex)
    "GRID",               # pos 1 filters column 1: only entities pass which match /^GRID$/ in column 1. (note the anchors in the regex)
    "1000"                # pos 2 filters column 2: entities pass which match /^1000$/ in column 2. (note the anchors in the regex)
    ""                    # pos 3 filters column 3: entities pass which match // in column 3. (empty => no anchors in the regex)
)

my $filteredModel = $model->filter(\@filter);

# filter for GRIDs (999 < NID < 2000)
my @filter2 = (
    "lulu",               # pos 0 filters comment:  only entities pass which match /lulu/ somewhere in the comment (comment = no anchors in the regex)
    "GRID",               # pos 1 filters column 1: only entities pass which match /^GRID$/ in column 1.
    "1\d\d\d"             # pos 2 filters column 2: entities pass which match /^1\d\d\d$/ in column 2.
)

my $filteredModel2 = $model->filter(\@filter2);

# filter for GRIDs ( (999 < NID < 2000) and (49999 < NID < 60000) and (69999 < NID < 80000))
my @filter3 = (
    "",                   # pos 0 filters comment:  all entities match empty filter
    "GRID",               # pos 1 filters column 1: only entities pass which match /^GRID$/ in column 1.
    [
        "1\d\d\d",        # pos 2 filters column 2: entities pass which match /^1\d\d\d$/ in column 2.
        "5\d\d\d\d",      # pos 2 filters column 2: or which match /^5\d\d\d\d$/ in column 2.
        "7\d\d\d\d"       # pos 2 filters column 2: or which match /^7\d\d\d\d$/ in column 2.
    ]
)

my $filteredModel3 = $model->filter(\@filter3);

getEntity()

returns all entities or only entities that pass a filter.

my @allEntities = $model->getEntitiy();

my @certainEntities = $model->getEntity(\@filter);

addEntity()

adds entities to a model.

# create new Entities
my $entity = CAE::Nastran::Nasmod::Entity->new();

$entity->setComment("just a test"); # comment
$entity->setCol(1, "GRID");         # column 1: cardname
$entity->setCol(2, 1000);           # column 2: id
$entity->setCol(4, 17);             # column 4: x
$entity->setCol(5, 120);            # column 5: y
$entity->setCol(6, 88);             # column 6: z

my $entity2 = CAE::Nastran::Nasmod::Entity->new(); 
$entity2->setComment("another test", "this is the second line of the comment");
$entity2->setCol(1, "GRID");
$entity2->setCol(2, 1001);
$entity2->setCol(4, 203);
$entity2->setCol(5, 77);
$entity2->setCol(6, 87);

# adds the entities to the model
$model->addEntity($entity, $entity2);

merge()

merges two models.

$model1->merge($model2);    # $model2 is beeing merged into model1

getCol()

returns the desired column of every entity in the model as an array.

my $model2 = $model->filter(["", "GRID"]);     # returns a Nastranmodel $model2 that contains only the GRIDs of $model
my @col2   = $model2->getCol(2);               # returns an array with all GRID-IDs (column 2) of $model2

count()

returns the amount of all entities stored in the model

$model1->count();

print()

prints the whole model in nastran format to STDOUT or to a file.

$model->print();              # prints to STDOUT
$model->print("file.nas");    # prints to file.nas

LIMITATIONS

only bulk data is supported. only 8-field nastran format is supported. the larger the model, the slowlier is filtering.

TODO

indexing to accelerate filtering

TAGS

CA, CAE, FEA, FEM, Nastran, perl, Finite Elements, CAE Automation, CAE Automatisierung

AUTHOR

Alexander Vogel [email protected]

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

Copyright (c) 2012-2014, Alexander Vogel, All Rights Reserved. You may redistribute this under the same terms as Perl itself.