Hi everyone,

I have a text file with x and y vertex co-ordinates of a geometry. I would like to write a macro to read from this file. How do I do this? Someone mentinoed something about IFILE command. I need more detail as I dont know much about writing the macro apart from the simplest terms.

Please help.

Thanx, StarCD

A macro can have any set of std prostar commands. The prostar command for entering vertices is

V,vertex#,x,y,z

If you modify your file to the lines above, rename it casename.inp and then use ifile,, you can read in those numbers. However, if all you want to do is just read in coordinates, you would be better off looking at the help for the VREAD command and put your file in the format that VREAD looks for.

Thank you Steve