HELP:Playing and saving animation from ansys
HELP:Playing and saving animation from ansys
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Hi all
I am working on ansys8.0 on solaris platform. I am tryiong to save animation from plotctrls-animate.
When i copy this file and play in windows media player or any other it says invalid file COOD1199 or something. can u tell me how do i save animations and copy them so that they are playabe in windows and other presentations
Thanx
I am working on ansys8.0 on solaris platform. I am tryiong to save animation from plotctrls-animate.
When i copy this file and play in windows media player or any other it says invalid file COOD1199 or something. can u tell me how do i save animations and copy them so that they are playabe in windows and other presentations
Thanx





RE: HELP:Playing and saving animation from ansys
Program Files > ANSYS v#
directory where this macro is located.
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RE: HELP:Playing and saving animation from ansys
I guess i need to be more clear with my question.
I am running ansys8.0 on solaris platform. and saving the animation there. if i copy the file(*.anim) to play in windows its not playing. the animation is a thermal transient analysis with a moving heat source. so kinda big file.
i tried saving it as .avi,.mpeg and .mov and play it in windows but it didnot work out
hope i am clear now
thanks for ur reply
RE: HELP:Playing and saving animation from ansys
I am not sure, but I think I had a similar problem. You could try these:
At the end of your animation, replay it (on your platform). Then try it again on Windows.
If that doesn't work, you should make your animation right from start a *.avi file:
1) first you must write a text file (animation.ans) like these:
time_delay= 0.1 !!! seconds
nres= 100 !!! Number of Results
/seg,delete !!! delete segments
/seg,multi, time_delay !!! start recording
set,first
*do, ii, 1, nres
/replot
set,next
*enddo
/seg,off !!! stop recording
anim,1 !!! play animation. Important !!!
2) second, position your model (zoom, orient) as you like
3) go in /prep1 an plot the temperatures from any time step.
4) read in the animation.ans file:
/input, animation, ans
Hope it works on your platform...
RE: HELP:Playing and saving animation from ansys
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RE: HELP:Playing and saving animation from ansys
ur advice has been of great help to me
I appreciate it
Thanx again