Advanced HyperMesh Altair Engineering
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HyperMesh options Panel.............................................................................................. 47
HyperMesh Macro Commands ...................................................................................... 47
Exercise 1: Creating a button ............................................................................. 49
Process for Creating Basic HyperMesh Macros.......................................................... 52
Exercise 2: A macro to save the model .............................................................. 53
Exercise 3: A macro to create a reverse video JPEG ........................................ 57
Creating HyperMesh Macros Using Tcl........................................................................ 61
Syntax of Macros vs Tcl/Tk.................................................................................. 62
Creating Macros using Tcl/Tk .............................................................................. 62
Tcl/Tk Help....................................................................................................................... 63
Exercise 4: Create a macro to invoke a Tcl script .............................................. 64
Exercise 5: Create a macro to save a file to a user-specified directory and
filename ............................................................................................................... 65
Exercise 6: A macro that checks the model for elements having a Jacobian
below a user specified value................................................................................ 68
Appendix A: HyperMesh Macro Menu Commands ...................................... 73
Macro File Example ............................................................................................. 73
Command List................................................................................................................. 75
*appendmark() ..................................................................................................... 75
*beginmacro() ...................................................................................................... 76
*callmacro().......................................................................................................... 77
*createbutton() ..................................................................................................... 78
*createbuttongroup()............................................................................................ 80
*createlistpanel().................................................................................................. 82
*createmarklast().................................................................................................. 83
*createmarkpanel() .............................................................................................. 84
*createtext() ......................................................................................................... 85
*endmacro() ......................................................................................................... 86
*enterpanel() ........................................................................................................ 87
*includemacrofile() ............................................................................................... 89
*nextmacrofile().................................................................................................... 90
*prevmacrofile().................................................................................................... 91
*pushmacrofile()................................................................................................... 92
*setactivegroup().................................................................................................. 93
*setactivepage()................................................................................................... 94
