Options used when exporting data via a custom solver tempalte.
Use the Custom option to export models using your own custom-built export translator,
or export models using a translator provided with the HyperWorks
installation but which is not directly accessible via the default Export menu.
General
- Export
- Type of entities to export.
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- All
- Export all entities in the current database.
- Displayed
- Export only the entities that are currently displayed.
- Entities that have a display state and/or a mask
state are displayed on the screen are exported. This
includes elements, loads, equations, systems,
vectors, groups, components, blocks, contactsurfs,
multibodies, ellipsoids, mbplanes, mbjoints,
assemblies, control cards (that are enabled),
loadcols, systemcols, vectorcols, and
connectors.
- Entities that do not have a display state and/or a
mask state are exported if at least one of the
entities it contains is displayed. For example,
entity sets do not have a display state (on/off). If
an entity set contains elements and some of the
elements are displayed, the set is exported.
However, the contents of the set are limited to the
displayed portion only. If this set contains 20
elements, five of which are displayed and remaining
turned off, the exported set will contain only five
elements. Entities in this category include: entity
sets, output blocks, loadsteps, control vols, and
beamsect cols.
- Entities that do not have a display state and/or a
mask state are exported if the entity is being used
by a displayed entity. For example, materials do not
have a display state, but if a displayed component
or element uses it, that material is exported.
Entities in this category are: nodes, materials,
properties, entity sets, and curves.
- Sometimes entities that are not displayed are
exported anyway, if the entity is referred to by
another entity that is displayed. For example, when
a vector is turned off, but is used in defining the
orientation of a beam element, the vector will be
exported in order to export the beam element
correctly. Entities in this category are: vectors,
systems, beamsections, multibodies, and
components.
- Any entity that is used or required by an attribute
of a displayed entity is also exported. For example,
if a material is defined as an attribute on an
element, that material is exported. All entities in
the HyperWorks database belong to
this category.
- Any entity that points to a displayed entity is
exported. Tags and titles belong to this
category.
- Template
- Click and
select the appropriate reader.
- Include export
- Method for exporting includes.
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- Merge
- Import the contents from all include files into
the HyperWorks model, but do not
maintain their references. When exporting, all
entities are written into the master file.
- Preserve
- Preserve the data in individual include files
along with their references in the master model.
Review the contents of individual include files in
the Include Browser. When exporting, entities are
written into the corresponding include files along
with their references in the master file.
- Write Connectors
- Export all of the connectors in the model. This operation appends the
master connector file xml data to the end of the solver input file as
solver comments and thus does not effect the operation of the solver.
This operation can remove the necessity to perform a FE-absorb on a
imported model since the connector information is retained in the solver
input file.
- Write ID rules
- Export ID management rules defined in the ID Manager as an XML block at
the end of each Include file.
Restriction: Available when
Include export is set to Preserve.
Warning messages
- Invalid elements
- Display warning message upon invalid elements.
- Overwrite existing file
- Display warning message upon overwriting an existing file.