Some conditions require be drawn not in global coordinates, but in the local coordinates of the surface or the line, for example a pressure is usually defined with a single scalar value and is assumed to be normal to the surface where is applied (and positive mean in the same direction of this normal and negative in opposite direction)
Instead a generic
orientation="local"
it is possible to use a more specialized value
orientation="loads"
In this case the proc instead to do OpenGL drawing actions simply must return a dict with the keys
load_type=local
load_vector=$load_local_direction (3 real values of the direction vector)
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<condition n="pressure_3d" pn="Pressure" ov="surface" ovm="" icon="select" help="Set pressure value (considered direction: opposite to the geometry normal)" groups_icon="groupCreated">
<value n="value" pn="Value" v="0.0" units="Pa" unit_magnitude="P" help="Load value" string_is="double" icon="data"/>
<symbol proc="ConditionSymbols::draw_loads_surface_pressure" orientation="loads"/>
</condition> |
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proc ConditionSymbols::draw_loads_surface_pressure { values_list } {
foreach item $values_list {
lassign $item key value unit
set data($key) $value
#set unit($key) $unit
}
set modulus $data(value)
if { $modulus > 0 } {
set load_local_direction [list 0 0 -1] ;#considered positive pointing oposite to local normal
} elseif { $modulus < 0 } {
set load_local_direction [list 0 0 1] ;#considered positive pointing oposite to local normal
} else {
#the value could be set by other function field, intead as modulus, consider like positive modulus
set load_local_direction [list 0 0 -1]
}
set dictionary [dict create load_type local load_vector $load_local_direction]
return $dictionary
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and GiD will draw it
e.g in this example assigned to a surface of a volume with pressure positive.
(positive values are considered pointing inside the volume.)
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