I would like to control my Plaxis model via external software. For that, I want to assign a new value for the cohesion cRef to a soil zone and this is composed of a calculated value plus the value of another soil material. Basically, I am looking for a way to make the following work:
_set Soil2.cRef (Soil1.cRef + 5)
The input is wrong of course, but maybe there is a syntax that makes this possible?
I do not think it is possible through command line, but it can be done with Python scripting. In general, operating Plaxis by Python is probably a good direction as each command has its equivalent in Python API with practically all benefits of using Python and its libraries.
Hello Andra,
It is impossible unfortunately. For the calculation of a parameter and assign it to PLAXIS, you may consider using Python scripting.
https://communities.bentley.com/products/geotech-analysis/w/wiki/46005/using-plaxis-remote-scripting-with-the-python-wrapper
Material Property changes for Python scripting
One of the reasons that we introduced our scripting facilities was the lack of any arithmetic calculations which of course Python is great at.