geometry create curve chain
Links together wire construction geometry to create a complex profile, which you can then extrude.
Format:
geometry create curve chain |
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chain_name = | a new chain |
adams_id = | adams_id |
comments = | string |
objects_in_chain = | an existing gwire |
Example:
geometry create curve chain & |
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chain_name = | chain__1 & |
adams_id = | 12376 |
Description:
Parameter | Value Type | Description |
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chain_name | A New Chain | Specifies the name of the chain you want to create or modify |
adams_id | Adams_id | Specifies an integer used to identify this element in the Adams data file. |
comments | String | Specifies comments for the object being created or modified. |
objects_in_chain | An Existing Gwire | Specifies the geometry to be chained together |
Extended Definition:
1. The geometry to be chained together must touch at one endpoint and cannot be closed geometry. It adds the final chained geometry to the part that owns the first geometry that you selected.
2. When you use the FILE ADAMS_DATA_SET WRITE command, Adams View writes an Adams data file for your model. Adams requires that each modeling element be identified by a unique integer identifier. If you use this parameter to specify a non-zero identifier, Adams View will use it in the corresponding statement in the Adams data file.
You may also enter zero as an identifier, either explicitly or by default. The next time you write an Adams file, Adams View will replace the zero with a unique, internally-generated identifier.
Adams View will permanently store this identifier with the element just as if you had entered it yourself.
Normally, you would let all identifiers default to zero, and Adams View would generate the identifiers for you. You are never required to enter a non-zero identifier. You only need to specify it if, for some reason, you wish to control the Adams file output.
3. When an Adams Solver data file (.adm) is read into Adams View, all comments associated with a statement (from the end of the previous statement through the end of the current statement) are stored with the object. Comments in the data file can be associated with model.
These comments must follow the title statement and be followed by the comment 'END OF MODEL COMMENTS'. This string must be uppercase.
When an Adams Solver data file is written, the comments for an object are written before the statement corresponding to the object.