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ATTENTION NEW USERS! READ THIS POST BEFORE DOING ANYTHING!
Hello all! Unfortunately the forum has recently been the victim of a spam attack, which you may have seen. We've got it under control but whilst we work to shore up the walls, so to speak, we have unfortunately gone into lockdown and you will not be able to post anything for a while. Please bear with us whilst we address…
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New search functionality for the Ansys dev portal
Hello to our forum and portal users! We are very excited to be on the verge of rolling out our new unified search for the Ansys Developer Portal and Forums. This search will bring together the documentation and articles from the dev portal and posts and information on the forum into a new single search. Over time we will…
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Welcome! Please Read Before Posting
Welcome to the Ansys Developer community! If you are using the developer tool packages with Ansys simulation tools then this is your community space. This community has been created to ask questions of your peers, exchange ideas, and converse about developer issues within an Ansys context. Here are some guidelines: Keep…
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Can I solve only selected Workbench Design Points? (DPs)
Yes, this is possible using whatever set up you have for the DP solve (RSM, local, etc). You just need to generate a list of the DPs you want to solve and use UpdateAllDesignPoints the pointing to the list. The script below is to be run in the Workbench scripting window and will ask for a comma separated list (tuple…
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How to export nodal displacements from a modal analysis using DPF?
How to export nodal displacements from a modal analysis using DPF?
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Python: Failed to connect to Motor-CAD instance
Dear forum, we have been using Motor-CAD 2024.1.3 with Python scripts in the last months. On the same PC (Windows) Motor-CAD 2024.2.3.1 has now been installed. This seems to lead to some unexpected behavior: when opening the same models and scripts in the same older 2024.1.3 version, the Python scripts suddenly fail at the…
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How to edit any legend value with a UI box in Mechanical?
There are some issues pertaining to editing contour legend values in Mechanical. One solution is to add the user environmental variable in Windows, ANS_USE_OPENGL_LEGEND_EDIT to 1, from 2024R2. But, if it doesn't work, how can I create a python button in Mechanical that allows me to edit any contour legend value?
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Mapdl pool run batch error
Dear all, I am using MapdlPool and the command run_batch. The code is launching properly and the pool is created. Randomly, the computation fails and I receive the following error %------------------------------------- raise MapdlExitedError( ansys.mapdl.core.errors.MapdlExitedError: MAPDL server connection terminated with…
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How to automaticaly create joints between line and solid bodies
Hello, I have a structure with plenty of line and solid bodies. I need to create joints for each side of all line bodies with adjencent vertex at solid body. Can anybody support with that. Thank you
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Using the Worksheet window with ACT Extension
In Mechanical, when the Geometry tree item is selected the worksheet window displays information about the properties of children objects. Similar behaviour exists for other tree objects such as Coordinate Systems and Analysis Settings. How can I acheive similar behaviour for my ACT extension? When selecting the parent…
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How to have ACT toolbar button create both parent and children objects?
In the Mechanical application, when the "Model" object is selected in the tree, the model ribbon tab allows the user to select "Named Selection". If the parent Named Selections object does not already exist in the tree, clicking this button will create the parent object and a child named slection object. If the parent…
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What Ansys tools are recommended to learn for Formula SAE participants ?
Hello, We are Team Buffalo, that competes in the Formula SAE Brazil and we are also a group of beginners students to Ansys, so we would like to know any recommendations for Ansys tools that could be used in the Formula SAE (in a priority order)?
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Get DPF results by harmonic index
For a cyclic model is there a way to get results at a specific harmonic index? Example: I want to get results for harmonic index 2, mode 1