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Creating more than 1 animation in a Do-loop, is this possible?

Creating more than 1 animation in a Do-loop, is this possible?

Creating more than 1 animation in a Do-loop, is this possible?

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I'm trying to create 2 animations (thus 2 *.avi files) with 2 different ETABLE results, and I don't find the way to do it. I'd like to get a frame for each Do-Loop and for each ETABLE plotting. Is this something possible? For example, here is the procedure I would like to do:

...
*DO,...
   ...
   ... (a lot of calculations)

   ! Creating the 1st *.avi file
   PLETAB,16

   /ANNOT,DELE
   /tlabel,-0.9,-0.6,Title
   /seg,multi,,0.5            
   /rep
   /seg,off

   ! Creating the 2nd *.avi file
   PLETAB,17    (some other results)
   ... (commands for recording the AVI file)

*ENDDO
...

RE: Creating more than 1 animation in a Do-loop, is this possible?

To create animations, I use the /show command instead of /seg.
For example;

/show,'name of file',grph
*do,

....

*enddo
/show,close

This file can then be viewed in ansys display to create a video (which also lets you control the time between frames). By issuing a series of /show commands you can create multiple videos. Hope this helps.

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