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Chapter IV.2
A few small examples

In this Chapter, one presents very small examples of data files performing simple operations with the FE model and Results. This allows to familiarize the reader to the use of FeResPost, and possibly to ruby also.

The examples are divided four categories:

 IV.2.1 Utilities Module
 IV.2.2 Examples without Results
  IV.2.2.1 Reading Bulk Data
  IV.2.2.2 Group examples
  IV.2.2.3 Manipulating Group entities
  IV.2.2.4 Adding Groups to a DataBase
 IV.2.3 Examples with iterators
 IV.2.4 Examples with Results
  IV.2.4.1 Inspecting Results contained in a DataBase
  IV.2.4.2 Calculations with Results
  IV.2.4.3 Using predefined criteria
  IV.2.4.4 Printing Results’ content
  IV.2.4.5 Coordinate system transformations
  IV.2.4.6 Manipulation of Complex Results
  IV.2.4.7 Manipulation of XDB attachments
 IV.2.5 A few useful tools
  IV.2.5.1 Definition of acceleration fields
  IV.2.5.2 Definition of temperature fields
  IV.2.5.3 Calculation of a total force and moment
  IV.2.5.4 Outputting a Gmsh file
 IV.2.6 Saving and retrieving Results from an SQL database
  IV.2.6.1 Saving objects in an SQLite database
  IV.2.6.2 Retrieving objects from an SQLite database
 IV.2.7 Reading optimization results
 IV.2.8 “Raw” access to XDB file content
  IV.2.8.1 Utilities
  IV.2.8.2 Printing Coordinate System Table Matrix
  IV.2.8.3 Accessing results
  IV.2.8.4 Producing a “clean” model from topometric optimization
  IV.2.8.5 Reading and saving the temperature distributions
 IV.2.9 Reading Results From Nastran HDF file
 IV.2.10 Raw reading of Nastran HDF file’s content
 IV.2.11 Superelements
  IV.2.11.1 Reading BDF file and accessing superelements
  IV.2.11.2 Superelements and OP2 files
  IV.2.11.3 Getting superelement Results from XDB files
  IV.2.11.4 Getting superelement Results from HDF files