skin class

Namespace: Ans.DataProcessing.operators.mesh

Summary

Extracts a skin of the mesh in a new meshed region. The material ID of initial elements are propagated to their facets.

available inputs: mesh (MeshedRegion), mesh_scoping (Scoping) (optional), duplicate_shell (bool) (optional), add_beam_point (bool) (optional)

available outputs: mesh (MeshedRegion), nodes_mesh_scoping (Scoping), map_new_elements_to_old (), property_field_new_elements_to_old (PropertyField), facet_indices (PropertyField)

Example

op = skin()

op = skin(mesh=my_mesh,mesh_scoping=my_mesh_scoping,duplicate_shell=my_duplicate_shell,add_beam_point=my_add_beam_point)

Class Information

Property	Value
Namespace	Ans.DataProcessing.operators.mesh
Assembly	meshOperatorsCore_dll_cs
Base Class	Ans.DataProcessing.internal_objects.BaseOperator

Inputs

mesh

Type: LinkableInput

mesh_scoping

Nodal scoping to restrict the skin extraction to a set of nodes. If provided, a skin element is added to the skin mesh if all its nodes are in the scoping.

Type: LinkableInput

duplicate_shell

If input mesh contains shell elements, output mesh shell elements (boolean = 1) are duplicated, one per each orientation, or (boolean = 0) remain unchanged.

Type: LinkableInput

add_beam_point

If input mesh contains beam or point elements, output mesh beam point elements (boolean = 1) are added or (boolean = 0) are ignored. Default: False

Type: LinkableInput

add_beam

Deprecated alias of: add_beam_point

Type: LinkableInput

Outputs

mesh

Skin meshed region with facets and facets_to_ele property fields.

Type: LinkableOutput

nodes_mesh_scoping

Type: LinkableOutput

property_field_new_elements_to_old

This property field provides, for each new face element ID (in the scoping), the corresponding 3D volume element index (in the data) it has been extracted from. The 3D volume element ID can be found with the element scoping of the input mesh.

Type: LinkableOutput

facet_indices

This property field gives, for each new face element ID (in the scoping), the corresponding face index on the source 3D volume element. The 3D volume element can be extracted from the previous output.

Type: LinkableOutput

Constructors

Constructor

skin()

Constructor

skin(mesh, mesh_scoping, duplicate_shell, add_beam_point, config)

Parameters:

• mesh (object)
• mesh_scoping (object)
• duplicate_shell (object)
• add_beam_point (object)
• config (OperatorConfig)

Constructor

skin(config)

Parameters:

• config (OperatorConfig)

Methods

Properties

inputs

Type: InputSpec

# Get or set the property
value = obj.inputs
obj.inputs = new_value

outputs

Type: OutputSpec

# Get or set the property
value = obj.outputs
obj.outputs = new_value

defaultConfig

Type: Config

# Get the property (read-only)
value = obj.defaultConfig