Possible to get area/volume of entities through GiD?

[awa5114]

Using GiD, it is possible to get X, Y and Z coordinates for any point using Utilities>List and then selecting the point or node of interest and pressing escape.

Is it possible, however, to obtain the numerical volume or surface area of an element? For example if I would like to get the numerical values for volume of a mesh element, how can this be done?

[escolano]

menu: Utilities->Mass
and select the entities you want. You will get its measure length/area/volume depending on the type of entity

From Tcl scripting language you can also ask for this information with the Tcl command
GiD_Info ListMassProperties

[awa5114]

Very nice. Thank you.