How can I examine the contents of a Continuity cont6 file?
• First you’ll need to load the file into Continuity (File > Load > Model). Currently there is no way to inspect cont6 file data without first loading it into Continuity. • Once it’s loaded you have a few options: • You could simply open various forms and inspect the data (e.g. Mesh > Edit > Nodes… will show you the nodes data stored on the cont6 file). • Alternatively, from the python shell (accessible by clicking the toolbar button right underneath the file menu) you can use some python introspection to see the data. • All of the data in a cont6 file works its way into a data structure called “self.stored_data”. So you can type “print dir(self.stored_data)” to see all the attributes of self.stored_data. For me I got a list like this: [‘basis’, ‘coord’, ‘elem’, ‘nodes’] • Most of these objects are “Container Objects” and thus have an “obj” attribute. Sometimes you can get addition info by just printing the “obj” data like this: print self.stored_data.coord.obj For me, this printed:
