{"id":185588,"date":"2021-07-23T09:06:35","date_gmt":"2021-07-23T09:06:35","guid":{"rendered":"\/forum\/forums\/reply\/185588\/"},"modified":"2021-07-23T09:06:35","modified_gmt":"2021-07-23T09:06:35","slug":"185588","status":"publish","type":"reply","link":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/forums\/reply\/185588\/","title":{"rendered":"Reply To: How to create the particles bed from coordinates and radii in Selective Laser Melting?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks for your reply. My spherical particles are not smaller than the cell size. <br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/forum\/wp-content\/uploads\/forum-uploads\/484\/PUVU1ZOW54YD.png\" width=\"1316\" height=\"736\" \/><br \/>\nAs in this figure, I have used &#8220;Cell Registers>New Region>Hexahedral&#8221; first to create a region with the metal block dimensions and then used patch to assign it the metal volume fraction.<br \/>\nMy question is how to patch the metal volume fraction in a similar manner to a large number of spherical particles(I have the coordinates and radii) above the lower metal block?<br \/>\nAs you suggested earlier, should I create a journal file to read the particles coordinate and radii from my data file and then use patch for the same? Is this the way to use a journal file?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-185588","reply","type-reply","status-publish","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/replies\/185588","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/replies"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/reply"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/replies\/185588\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}