Dear community!
At the moment I'm seeking for a way to retrieve all nodal z-coordinates from my non-plane NURBS ground surface (after mesh discretization). Is there an easy solution I haven't considered yet? At the best, using Python Scripting?
Thanks a lot in advance!
Dear Andreas,
Nodes are not linked to geometric objects but to mesh elements. Typically information on nodes can be found in Output, but I am not sure I understand what exactly you are looking for.
Can you please elaborate on this?
Dear Stafanos!
Thank you for your quick reply. Actually, I want to export / inspect all nodal coordinates (x,y,z) of my ground surface, which is created using a NURBS surface. In other words, I need point cloud data of my generated ground surface. In output, of course, there is the possiblity to retrieve the nodal coordinates of my domain; in case of a plane ground surface, I can sort them by the z-coordinate and e.g. extract all nodes with z=0. In case of a non-plane ground surface generated based on a NURBS surface, this becomes more tricky, since the ground surface nodes vary in z-direction.
In a nutshell: Which approach would you recommend to retrieve the nodal coordinates of my non-plane surface, which was not generated by means of polygons, but by a NURBS surface using point cloud data. Or is there a way to obtain the spatial data of my NURBS surface in Plaxis Input?
Thank you in advance!
Andreas
Currently, it is not possible to get the exact coordinates. You could try adding a dummy plate, meshing the geometry and based on the Output coordinates (depending on how refined it is) get a good approximation of the values.