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Creation of keypoints in PyMAPDL around another keypoint

I am trying to create a wind turbine model in PyMAPDL. I got to a point where I have a tower and a nacelle. However, I got stuck making the blades of the wind turbine. They should be 3 and separated 120 degrees between them. To give you some…
Nicolás Olabarría
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How to replace the stiffness matrix in ANSYS Mechanical APDL?

It is necessary to perform a calculation for a one-dimensional problem with a jump (this is some constant given in the displacements). There is a rod with areas V1 and V2, a border between them. At the border, the nodes are double numbered. There…
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pyvista._vtk error. Bug located in mapdl.aplot()

Description of the bug I have a problem when I ran mapdl.aplot(show_area_numbering=True, color_areas=True) This is output of my problem There are something issue in pyvista._vtk when it try to import VTK9 Which Operating System are you…
Thang Le Xuan
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How to minimize the .rst file size of a transient structural analysis in Ansys APDL?

I am running a transient structural analysis for a 600 secs time durarion, with a time step 0.1. The problem is that the .rst file is exceeding 1TB in size. From the expected results, I only need the displacement of a specific node and the von Mises…
André Victor Castilho
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Stress history In Ansys Mechanical APDL

I'm trying to get the stress history of an element, but when i define the variable with The ESOL command, ALL the The data is empty. I'm running a full transient analysis. Any gelo would be aprecciate. Thanks! I tryed to set the outres, ESOL, sites,…
André Victor Castilho
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Finding the crack tip location or crack path coordinate of a ANSYS Mechanical APDL simulation

I am dealing with a crack simulation using ANSYS APDL mechanical. For some purpose, I need to extract the location of crack tip under every substep of simulation. The simulation was done by 2D XFEM method. Is there any commands to find the crack tip…
Kevin Chang
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Ansys APDL : use of the MVERT_6P function

I am decrypting an old ansys apdl code. This code uses the MVERT_6P function like this: MVERT_6P,A1,A2,A3,A4,A5,A6,'MR0_R1',PAS. I can't find any information about this function in the Ansys help. A1,2,3,4,5,6 correspond to 3D coordinate…
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AttributeError: 'MapdlGrpc' object has no attribute 'load_parameters'

Pyansys load_parameters (): Has the official API of parameters () been changed? If so, what has it been changed to? enter image description here When I ran the previous code, because the pyansys version at that time was very low (0.39.10), it may no…
qiancha
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How to call an external program (.exe) after modal solution in Ansys MAPDL script

I'm trying to call a .exe file (Matlab routine) after a modal solution in an Ansys MAPDL script. Is there an APDL command for this?
André Victor Castilho
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ANSYS pyMAPDL output from string to array

I'm studying ANSYS pyMAPDL, following the tutorial https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=szHmg-xW_hM&t=1s It was understood from both the tutorial code itself and pyMAPDL documentation that prnsol returns a str object, but it has the enriched method…
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ANSYS: Change working directory while executing a macro

I have a macro which creates a new folder in the current working directory while running it. Now what I want to do is as soon as the macro creates the new folder in the working directory, all the further files including .db and .rst should be saved…
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