Interfacing with external post-processors

You can interface calculations with custom methods to external post-processing software. This allows you to customize the post-processing of margin of safety results or use post-processing tools outside of Simcenter 3D.

After you have created the interface, in the Simulation Navigator, when you right-click the node of the calculation, the drop-down menu contains the Launch Post Processing command. The Launch Post Processing command is active when the calculation has been solved. When you choose the Launch Post Processing command, the software passes the margin of safety results for the calculation to the external post-processor.

Visual Basic example

This example shows how to get input parameter values, and output parameter values, with looping on the number of load cases for margin of safety results. Simcenter 3D stores the results only. You can write the external post-processing software to process the results in a specific way.

Method registration:

Automatically completed if PostProcess() method is defined and compilable in the script.

Method implementation:

Public Function PostProcess(ByRef mCalc As MarginCalculation)        Dim str1 As string = mCalc.GetInputStringValue("Str1")        Dim val1 As double = mCalc.GetInputScalarValue("Len1")        Dim val2 As double = mCalc.GetInputScalarValue("Siz1")        Dim loadCaseArray As string()        mCalc.GetResultLoadCaseNames(LoadCaseArray)        Dim value As double        Dim values As double()        ReDim Preserve values(loadCaseArray.Length)        Dim allowable As double = mCalc.GetResultOutputScalarValue("Result", "FM1", "")        Dim i As Integer        For i = 0 To loadCaseArray.Length - 1        value = mCalc.GetResultMsValue("FM1  ", loadCaseArray(i))        values(i) = value        Next        Return True

C++ example

This example shows how to get input parameter values, and output parameter values, with looping on the number of load cases for margin of safety results. It is based on the existing built-in Column Euler method. Simcenter 3D stores the results only. You can write the external post-processing software to process the results in a specific way.

Method registration:

lib->RegisterEvaluate("MS_Column_Euler", 1, make_callback(CaeSim_AeroStruct_Method_MS_Column_Euler));lib->RegisterPostProcess("MS_Column_Euler", 1, make_callback(CaeSim_AeroStruct_Method_MS_Column_Euler_PostProcess));

Method implementation:

extern "C" bool CaeSim_AeroStruct_Method_PostProcess(MarginCalculation *mCalc){        static const char* failuremode = "column_buckling";        NXOpen::Unit *unit = calculation->GetResultOutputScalarUnit("sigmacr");        double val1 = calculation->GetInputScalarValue("A");        double val2 = calculation->GetInputScalarValue("I");        double val3 = calculation->GetInputScalarValue("E");        double val4 = calculation->GetInputScalarValue("L");        double val5 = calculation->GetInputScalarValue("C");        std::vector<NXOpen::NXString> names;        calculation->GetResultLoadCaseNames(names);        int nlc = names.size();        std::vector<double> values;        double allowable;        allowable = calculation->GetResultOutputScalarValue("sigmacr", failuremode, "");        for (int i = 0; i < nlc; ++i)        {        values.push_back(calculation->GetResultMsValue(failuremode  , names[0]));        }        return true;}

Learn more

Custom methods

Custom method example

Creating tables and groups

Interfacing with external files

Diagrams for custom methods

Specifying default values for parameters

Bulk processing of calculations

Look up more details

Elements and attributes of XML files

Quick links

Command reference

Pre/Post video examples

Bulk Entry Descriptions

Simcenter 3D tutorials

Browse Simcenter 3D help by product area

Margin of Safety methods documentation

Interfacing with external post-processors, Simcenter 3D 2021.1 Series

© 2020 Siemens

window.mainLanguage="en_US"

window.delivId=""

window.projectId=""

MathJax.Hub.Config({ TeX: { extensions: ["autoload-all.js"] }, tex2jax: { displayMath: [ ] }, "SVG": { scale: 125 } });