I have some interesting problems in the development process. Someone asked me what is problemtype? How about another ones? So, I need explain that all time to different persons. Now, I notice the software “Tdyn16.2.5 x64” need not assign the problemtype. I have a try to copy some commans of .TCL in “Tdyn”, which effectively skips assigning the problemtype, but the Mesh->Assign cartesian size->lines cannot work. I am confused how I should do.
I need some help how to default the problemtype I need. if that, I can directly build the models when I open our GID.
A ‘GiD problemtype’ is simply a collection of files in a folder .gid that when is loaded customize GiD for a specific simulation.
It is a kind of plugin that is loaded to modify the GiD behaviour and add new features, like allow write calculation files in the format expected by the simulation.
means?
A problemtype is not assigned to entities, it is loaded or unloaded in GiD, then usually the GUI of GiD change.
I guess that do you mean, that in the GiD copy installed by Tdyn (compassfem) is not compulsory that the user manually do the load from the Data->Problem type menu
the problemtype can be also specified as an argument of the gid.exe command line
gid.exe -p <problemtype_name>
(see https://gidsimulation.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/GRM/pages/2385546223/Command+line+flags)
And in particular Tdyn install its own GiD copy, not shared with other problemtype, and it uses a trick creating a file ‘argv.txt’ that GiD read and act like its content was written in the command line, and in this case has something like
-c2 Tdyn16.2.0.gid.ini -p compassfem
then a direct double-click on gid.exe will start gid with a non-default user settings file, and will then load the problemtype named compassfem (that is located at /problemtypes/compassfem.gid)
Hello, I have a try to add the file named as “argv.txt”, I implemented an automatic assignment of “Problemtype”. However, I find a derivative problem that I can not mesh the grid of “line” type.
It is that I operate " Mesh->Genernate mesh ". But, the windows of “Progress in meshing” only have the informations of Hexahedra element and nodes. I cannot get the informations of " Linear elements ". If I delete the file of “argv.txt”, I can generate the informations of “Linear elements”.
the context in “argv.txt” include the “-c2 tem3dfdtd.gid.ini -p tem3dfdtd”. Clearly, the name, “tem3dfdtd.gid”, is my problemtype.
probably them different behavior is because you are setting an alternative user setting file with
-c2 tem3dfdtd.gid.ini
and some variable related with meshing preferences doesn’t has the value as you want