How do I get the Local co-ordinate systems along with the deformed mesh in the .cdb file?

Karthick RAJAN
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I have performed an analysis that has many Local coordinate system. While exporting the deformed mesh using CDWRITE,all, , , it writes everything except co-ordinate systems. Can we include any command in APDL commands to write Local coordinate system in ANSYS MECHANICAL? Once the .cdb is generated, I use external model to view the deformed shape (.cdb file). are there any settings to keep for proper importing?

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  • Pernelle Marone-Hitz
    Pernelle Marone-Hitz Member, Moderator, Employee Posts: 857
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    edited September 6

    One possible workaround would be to create a macro that writes needed information to a text file for later reuse. For that, CSLIST can be used:

    /OUTPUT,my_csys1,txt
    CSLIST,12,999,1
/OUT

    However CDWRITE,DB,TEST,CDB does write the CSs:

    LOCAL,UNBL,LOC,      12, 0,  6.37795277    ,  0.00000000    ,  0.00000000    
LOCAL,UNBL,ANG,      12, 0,  0.00000000    ,  0.00000000    ,  0.00000000    
LOCAL,UNBL,PRM,      12, 0,  1.00000000    ,  1.00000000    
CSCIR,      12,       0,       0
LOCAL,UNBL,LOC,      13, 0,  1.81102362    ,  1.19040923    , 3.937007874E-02
LOCAL,UNBL,ANG,      13, 0,  0.00000000    ,  0.00000000    ,  0.00000000    
LOCAL,UNBL,PRM,      13, 0,  1.00000000    ,  1.00000000    
CSCIR,      13,       0,       0

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