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*USE in *ABBR command

*USE in *ABBR command

*USE in *ABBR command

(OP)
When I call a macro from a macro library by using the *ABBR command with:
*ABBR, command, *USE, macroname
at startup I obtain:
* no longer valid as comment character - please use !
and the abbreviation is cancelled.
Do you know what the problem could be?

andrea

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 Andrea Mordini, Civil Engineer, Ph.D.           
 http://www.andreamordini.com                          
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RE: *USE in *ABBR command

Hi,

it works like that:

*abb,command,macroname.mac,arguments

Ansys will first search in the Work Directory and than in the APDL directory.

If you are usig a mcro from a macro library, you must call a macro, who will call the other macro from the library,

CODE

*abb,command,mainmacro.mac ! calls main macro

The content of main macro:

CODE

*uli,libname,ans
*use,macroname

Regards,
Alex

RE: *USE in *ABBR command

(OP)
But in this case I have to write a different MAC file for each macro... there's not a big improvement in using a library...
sadsad

andrea

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 Andrea Mordini, Civil Engineer, Ph.D.           
 http://www.andreamordini.com                          
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