×
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

Draw a Smooth Line Through Given Points in ANSYS

Draw a Smooth Line Through Given Points in ANSYS

Draw a Smooth Line Through Given Points in ANSYS

(OP)
Hi,

 I am trying to model a turbine blade for which i would like to represent the profile as accurate as possible. I have an eqution for the blade profile to get the vertices. I would lke to generate some kepoints using profile equation and want ANSYS to genrate a smooth curve (atleast quadratic fit)through these points. Is there a command to do this in ANSYS.

I don't want to input too many points to keep the meshing easier.

L command is just drawing straight lines between points and I dont want my profile to be faceted. Any ideas on how to do this

Thanks,
Nodal DOF

RE: Draw a Smooth Line Through Given Points in ANSYS

I would suggest using splines (SPLINE command). This will draw smooth curved lines though up to six points. You can also define the vector at the beginning and end of the line - in this way you can join up more than one spline smoothly.

As for generating the points from an equation, probably the quickest way is simply to input the points by hand. However, you could also write a short APDL file with some *do loops to generate points from an equation if you need to do this many times.

RE: Draw a Smooth Line Through Given Points in ANSYS

(OP)
Thankks.That was the command i needed and it worked...

Nodal..

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