Zmaster interfaces#

Description#

Many of the different Z-mat platforms have integrated functionality for their mesh input and results files within the other Z-set products including the Zmaster GUI program. This software is what NW Numerics uses exclusively for validation and problem processing for all the different interfaces. Generally the Z-mat user could be interested in the following:

  • Opening results files for visualization and rendering. The following simple commands are examples:

    Zmaster -odb my_calculation.odb
Zmaster my_calculation.fil
Zmaster ansys_calc.rst

  • The 8.3.6 version includes the Simulation GUI interface for setting up and working with material simulation and fitting work.

  • Mesh files can be imported and saved to different formats with sets and other boundary condition data preserved.

  • Many of the Z-mat validation test cases use a post processing step to extract X-Y data in an automated manner. Zmaster can be used to plot general ASCII file data using the Plot button:

    Zmaster doghri.test

More detail on the file format translators and use of Zmaster is given in the Release Notes / Zmaster handbook.