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This seems a problem with the name of the temporary path, probably because your user is working with a Japanese operating system and his username has Japanese characters. When using filenames with japanese encoding (Non ASCII characters) then standard funcions to open files, etc will fail. It this i...

It's possible to run a batch without open any window with the -n option, but graphics features (like save pictures) won't be available with this option. gid -b "batchfile" -n It exists another -n2 option that open the GiD window, but minimized. Read GiD help about "Invoking GiD" ...

The surfaces are not topologically closing a volume, because some lines are duplicated When I get a message like this, the first step I do is to show wich are the related lines showing its labels on copy the list of line numbers 3 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 14 15 17 18 View-Label-Select-Lines and paste the ...

We don't have any special tool to 'edit' binary post results files, You can read it in GiD and then export again as ASCII file (Files-Export-Post information-ASCII files...) then you can edit the results file with a simple text editor and delete unwanted results. Finally if you want, you can read it...

The /A new modifier of the set DOS command is not valid for our command.exe (command.exe is used by GiD as .bat interpreter if exists instead the Windows cmd.exe or command.com) Read GiD help to know our valid syntax (Customization-executing an external program-Commands accepted by the GiD command.e...

Hello Marco, You are confusing geometric lines and mesh entities (linear elements) GiD_Info layers -entities lines Arcate return the lines identifiers of this layer: 3 4 5 6 if you want the elements of this layer you must use GiD_Info layers -entities elements Arcate that return in your example 1 2 ...

Sorry, we don't understand your question. What do you mean with "draw a contour fill with the normal stress to boundaries of the volume"? Enrique Escolano ----- Original Message ----- From: SC Sembenelli Consulting - Roma To: gidlist at gid.cimne.upc.edu Sent: Tuesday, September 02, 2008 4...

You can use GiD 'contact' volume entities, that link two surfaces and force when meshing a node-to-node relationship We don't have any specific tutorial related to contacts, but there is nothing special: the 'contact volume' is like a meshing criteria to have similar meshes in both surfaces and auxi...

You can use the division of the line by 'near point' Geometry-Edit-Divide-Lines-Near point select the point P and the line/s to be divided, this lines will be splitted by the closest point. You can also use the GiD_Info parametric Tcl command, to know the parameter t of the closest point to x,y,z se...

This command is currently only implemented for NURBS surfaces, we will implement it for other kind of surfaces for next beta versions. If you want you can convert Planar or Coons surfaces (deprecated) to NURBS with the menu Geomety-Edit-Convert to NURBS-Surfaces Note: Surf-meshes is an special case ...