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Scale bar issue for interface

maddie groves — Fri, 29 Jul 2022 12:55:12 GMT

Hello,
I'm trying to look at stress on an interface, and want to change the colour scale to see things more clearly. When I try to do this the usual way (double clicking on the scale bar or going into legend settings and adjusting the maximum and minimums) the manual scale I input doesn't get reflected in the results, and then when I open up the legend settings again it just goes back to the automatic values. I'm using version 22.01.00.452. The scale seems to adjust fine for soils and plate results, just not the interface, any idea if i'm doing something incorrectly or if it may be being caused by something?
Thanks
Maddie

Edit: Actually, trying to look at structural forces in my plate, i'm not able to change the scale for those either, I get the same issue of the scale bar not updating based on my manual input for max and min.

Extract results over a chosen interface Python

maddie groves — Thu, 22 Sep 2022 10:01:45 GMT

Hello,

I'm trying to write a python script that will extract stress and displacement results from all nodes on a single chosen interface, but am having some trouble with getting results for the interface element, i've tried variations on the code below, but get the error as shown:

Code:

stress_results = g_o.getresults(phase,g_o.ResultTypes.Interface.InterfaceTotalNormalStress,'node')

(also not working: g_o.getresults(interface,phase,g_o.ResultTypes.Interface.InterfaceTotalNormalStress,'node') ((the structure of which works fine for extracting beam / embedded beam results)

Error (in PLAXIS):

!!!!> getresults 8 ResultTypes.Interface.InterfaceTotalNormalStress "node"
Invalid parameters. Make sure that the specified parameters match the ones that are expected.

I know the above (when working) will get me node results for every interface in the model. Would there be a way to instruct it to only extract results from an interface with a certain reference?

As always, any help would be very much appreciated!

Kind regards

Maddie

Non-porous volume and stresses

maddie groves — Mon, 20 Mar 2023 12:19:31 GMT

Hello,

I'm using v22.02.00.1078 and just been modelling a volume as non-porous. I've done this many times before (for a simple concrete volume, using linear elastic soil model), but potentially in older versions of PLAXIS, and been able to view total stresses in the volume, but now when I try and view the stresses it says there are none to view. Is this a glitch or is it deliberate to get no total stress results for non-porous volumes?

Many thanks

Maddie

Python remote scripting problem - No module named 'encyption'

Catherine Jiang — Wed, 02 Mar 2022 22:42:45 GMT

Hi all

I was trying to run a python script to define a P3D project - the P3D version is PLAXIS 3D CONNECT Edition V21 Update 1 - but I cannot successfully run it as indicated by the tutorial video https://communities.bentley.com/products/geotech-analysis/w/plaxis-soilvision-wiki/45880/remote-scripting-api-drivemining

One different thing is that I'm using Spyder instead of Idle editor, I'm not sure if it's the reason, and I've got warning like shown in the figure:

The code I used is: (exactly the same as the tutorial except the plaxis_path, and I do see the plxscripting folder in this path)

plaxis_path = r'C:\ProgramData\Bentley\Geotechnical\PLAXIS Python Internal Distribution V1 Update 1\python_internal\Lib\site-packages'
import imp
import math
found_module = imp.find_module('plxscripting', [plaxis_path])
plxscripting = imp.load_module('plxscripting', *found_module)
from plxscripting.easy import *

And the error message shows:

File "C:\ProgramData\Bentley\Geotechnical\PLAXIS Python Internal Distribution V1 Update 1\python_internal\Lib\site-packages\plxscripting\connection.py", line 32, in <module>
import encryption

ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'encryption'

I checked the files within the plxscripting folder, and there is no module called 'encryption' (unlike a similar question in the forum that he can see the 'encryption' but cannot find it). Should I download this module from somewhere? Or is it the problem of the plaxis_path?

Hope my description is clear, thanks

Python interpreter

Madeleine Groves — Mon, 04 Apr 2022 16:05:22 GMT

Hi,

I've been writing python scripts for the PLAXIS using the Scite notebook, but would like to start using an interpreter such as Sypder to work in instead. I know there is the Jupyter interpreter installed with PLAXIS, but I don't find this as useful as Spyder. Is there any guidance available on configuring a different python interpreter? I've tried using the configure python interpreter option however I get an error that it's not been possible to install a number of packages?

Kind regards

Maddie

V21 / V22 output model compatibility issue

maddie groves — Fri, 22 Jul 2022 13:55:34 GMT

Hello, We have been sent a model that we can view in the output programme by an engineering company working for us, but they have sent in V21 and we run V22. We aren't able to open the V21 model in the V22 output viewer and we aren't able to open the V21 model in the input programme to covert it to a V22 model. Please could we be sent a download link for the most recent V21 version so that we can open this model? We need to see the results urgently (and are unlikely to be able to get a V22 model from them in time), Kind regards Maddie

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