Dear All
I am trying to extract data from several groups and merge to selected data
into a single group. The data file structure looks like:
member0 (MainGroup)
member0 (SubGroup - FEdata)
positions (DX field - positions, connections, data...)
connections
data etc.
member1
positions
connections
data etc.
etc.
member1
member0
positions
connections
data etc.
member1
positions
connections
data etc.
etc.
member3
member0
etc.
What I need to do is select, for example, member 0 and member 3 (MainGroups
01 & 04 and have access via a single <select>/<selector> pair to all the
members within the 2 groups from a single <select>/<selector> pair.
If it helps, the highest level members (MainGroups) are groups of finite
elements, and the second level members (SubGroups) contain the various data
results (displacement, stress component etc.) for each set of elements.
Thus, I'd like to present one <selectorlist> that says "select the regions
of interest" and another that asks "which parameter would you like to
investigate". Unfortunately, I haven't worked out how to merge all the
groups data from several top level members into a single group.
I've tried using 2 macros with a <foreachmember> loop in the first, calling
a second one with a <forN> which iterates each second level member. However
the <setlocal>/<getlocal> pairs coupled to an <append> in the first macro
recombine the data into the original form, even though the within the macro
everything is separated as I want them to be
The results are written from a Perl script, so if changing the structure of
DX file there is a better way to go than doing it inside DX that is possible.
Unfortunately, there is a limit to mow many field can be displayed in a
<selectorlist> so I cannot just write all my FE data fields (upto 20) for
all my element groups (often 20+) into a flat file. Since that exceeds the
limit (and makes for really huge data sets to visualize).
Thanks for your time
Peter
