How to export animations of all modes with Mechanical

Mike.Thompson
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edited June 2023 in Structures

how to export all modes, or modes based on frequency, to animation files.

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  • Mike.Thompson
    Mike.Thompson Member, Employee Posts: 361
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    edited January 2023

    Also how to do this via PyAnsys tools....

  • Ayush Kumar
    Ayush Kumar Member, Moderator, Employee Posts: 467
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    edited January 2023

    Hi @Mike.Thompson,

    In Mechanical you can create displacement result objects for each mode and export using ExportAnimation

    Refer to the link.

    With PyMAPDL seems like it is possible - https://github.com/pyansys/pymapdl-reader/blob/main/README.rst#animating-a-modal-solution

    Using PyDPF it is unfortunately not very straightforward. I am working on an example for PyDPF docs.

    Approach:

    • Extract displacement fields container, each field associated with one modee.
    • We can create multiple fields from one mode by scaling results of that mode and animate over them.