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[jcastel]

I am trying to run a large Design of Experiment and i am using Workbench to automatically generate meshes representing different rectangular rooms of different dimensions.

I would like to measure a field quantity at every timestep at ~200 evenly spaced sampling points that cover the entire domain however there does not appear to be any way to define measuring surfaces/points using input parameters.

Is there a way to import a list of (ID, x, y, z) points to define a series of point i could generate from an alternative script?

[Rahul Kumar]

Hello,
You can go to Results --> Surfaces and define points at specific locations and then you can create a report definition (surface report --> Vertex) to monitor field variables at those points. If you want to output every 200 iterations, you can use the calculation activities to compute and output the value every # of iterations.

[jcastel]

So in answer to my question for others who might see this i figured our on my own that there are two ways....
1) in the TUI type /surface/point-array NAME_FOR_SURFACE POINTS_PER_SIDE XMIN YMIN ZMIN XMAX YMAX ZMAX
2) or if you have a list of points you can write and read in a journal file of the following command repeated for each of your desired points..