Loaded elastic beam tutorial: beam3d.grd not loading

[johnny_w]

Hello all,

the sample beam3d.grd from the "Loaded elastic beam"-tutorial (and probably others, too), does not load correctly when you use a German language setting (Ubuntu 10.04, Elmer binary install with Synaptics from www.opennovation.org). The reason is, that in Germany the comma (",") is used as a decimal delimitor, while the decimal delimitor in the grd file is - according to international standards - a dot/fullstop (".").

To overcome this limitation in a German desktop environment start ElmerGUI not from the menus but in a bash window with a small script like this:

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#!/bin/bash
LANG=en_US.UTF-8 ; export LANG
ElmerGUI

Make it executable (chmod +x <scriptname>) and you can load the beam3d.grd file and work through the tutorial.

Hope this saves you some time.

John