How to export animations of all modes with Mechanical

Mike.Thompson

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

Mike.Thompson

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

Ayush Kumar

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.