Yarn Interpolation Fuctions

[myapa2]

Hello,

I am trying to model individual fibers of a composite that follows the path of some TexGen models I generated. The model in consideration is a one-ply plain weave and I want to extract the path of the yarns from TexGen so I can create my own model for fibers that follow the same path. Is there a way to obtain the control points of the interpolation function?

Thank you,
Milinda

[louisepb]

Hi Milinda,

There are a couple of ways you could do this:
1. Use the CInterpolation::GetSlaveNodes function from within a Python script or C++ program
2. Save the model in TexGen using the Full option. This then saves all of the slave node information. The .tg3 file is basically a renamed xml file so you can open this in an editor and then extract the slave node coordinates from the file.

Hope that helps,
Louise

[myapa2]

Hello Louise,

Thank you for the reply.
I did try the following lines using a python script and I keep getting an error.

Code: Select all

textile = GetTextile()
yarn = textile.GetYarn(0)
nodes = yarn.GetSlaveNodes(LINE)

error: nodes = yarn.GetSlaveNodes(LINE)
NameError: name 'LINE' is not defined

I thought LINE was the correct argument input to use.
Am I doing something wrong here?

Milinda

[louisepb]

Hi Milinda,

You're nearly there. The LINE is part of an enumerator in the CYarn class so you just need to use CYarn.LINE and then it should work.

Best wishes,
Louise

[myapa2]

Okay. That works. Thank you!

Milinda