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Pete March 21, 2005 07:39

surface area
 
Hi,

does anybody know a command that calculates the area of the surface of a cset? Like volume cset calculates the volume? Thanks

nicolas March 21, 2005 08:58

Re: surface area
 
there are various way to do area calculation. You can select a zone using a cset redefined this zone like a boundary area, and UTILITY=>CALCULATE AREA=>Boundary set.

Jörn Beilke March 21, 2005 09:16

Re: surface area
 
if you have a cset of volume cells do the following

clrwall

live surf create

cset news type_of_created_shells

oper getc area 1

summ cset

*get area rtot 1



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