Enabling Mid-nodes for Translation

During translation to CAX files, VMoveCAE writes only the corner nodes values by default. The mid-nodes in higher order elements are not considered. This module shows how users can change the default setting to retain the mid-nodes in VMoveCAE GUI or batch mode.

VMoveCAE GUI

  1. Start VMoveCAE and load a CAE file with mid-nodes.

  2. Go to Settings->Preferences to open the Preferences dialog box. Uncheck Ignore mid-nodes checkbox.

    Controlling_Mid_node

  3. Click on the “OK” button to update the setting. The later translations will contain the mid-nodes in the CAX file where available.

Batch Mode

The translation of mid-nodes can be enabled in batch mode using the --enable-mid-nodes command line option.

VMoveCAEBatch.exe --enable-mid-nodes hinge.odb hinge.cax