×
INTELLIGENT WORK FORUMS
FOR ENGINEERING PROFESSIONALS

Log In

Come Join Us!

Are you an
Engineering professional?
Join Eng-Tips Forums!
  • Talk With Other Members
  • Be Notified Of Responses
    To Your Posts
  • Keyword Search
  • One-Click Access To Your
    Favorite Forums
  • Automated Signatures
    On Your Posts
  • Best Of All, It's Free!
  • Students Click Here

*Eng-Tips's functionality depends on members receiving e-mail. By joining you are opting in to receive e-mail.

Posting Guidelines

Promoting, selling, recruiting, coursework and thesis posting is forbidden.

Students Click Here

Jobs

Viewing results inside a volume

Viewing results inside a volume

Viewing results inside a volume

(OP)
Hello,

In my model I have 2 cylinders glued and made of different materials and I would like to postprocess :
1. Only the results in the cylinder n°2 (contour plot and the values)
2. The nodal results inside this cylinder (the values) for example the value of NLHPRES in the center of the cylinder

Somebody knows how I can do these 2 points ?
Thanks

Regards

RE: Viewing results inside a volume

I'm a little unclear on what you're asking in your first question Cnamitma.  But, to view the results interior to a model here's the general procedure:

1) Create a coordinate system where the X-Y plane is that which you wish to view the results for.  This is where you want to "slice" your model and evaluate at.  Be sure that this coordinate system is set to be the work plane.

2) Change the hidden line options to Q-Slice.  This can be done by:

Utility Menu->PlotCtrls->Style->Hidden Line Options and choose type to be Q-Slice.

or

/TYPE,1,8

RE: Viewing results inside a volume

(OP)
For my first question, I meant that I wish to select the second cylinder in order to see the results (the values) only in this cylinder. Because as the 1st cylinder is in a rigid metal and the 2nd in rubber, the stresses vary between very low and very high values and the contour plot are not good enough to appreciate the results.
In a nut shell, i want the results only in a part of my model.

For the second question, it's all wright, thanks but what I would like now are the values of the nodes in the section obtained with your method.

Thanks
Best regards

RE: Viewing results inside a volume

For the first question, you can do it as following GUI menu:
   'Select entities' ---- to select the 2nd cylinder.
   then, 'select---->everything below selected volumes'

    

RE: Viewing results inside a volume

If the 2nd cylinder is made of a different material, you can easily see this by using the following (based on selection by material):

Let's assume the material number you want to select is number 2:

esel,s,mat,,2

to select just the nodes for this material, then use:

nsle,s

The HPRES results for nodal solution has to be the nodal-element solution values:

plnsol,nl,hpres


------------
See FAQ569-1083 for details on how to make best use of Eng-Tips.com

Red Flag This Post

Please let us know here why this post is inappropriate. Reasons such as off-topic, duplicates, flames, illegal, vulgar, or students posting their homework.

Red Flag Submitted

Thank you for helping keep Eng-Tips Forums free from inappropriate posts.
The Eng-Tips staff will check this out and take appropriate action.

Reply To This Thread

Posting in the Eng-Tips forums is a member-only feature.

Click Here to join Eng-Tips and talk with other members!


Resources