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I was wondering if there is a UK supplier of glass fibre box section that includes metal tapped holes for attaching to?
I've seen similar bespoke products using big head inserts that are added to the layup before curing. The off the shelf galss fibre box section I've seen doesn't have...
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I'm using workbench and would like to automate the creation of lots of coordinate systems based on geometry parameters.
I've found a way to do it by creating planes in design modeller and then exporting them for use later but it's a very convoluted way to do it and is time consuming...
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I've started using rigid body dynamics in ANSYS workbench. I'm working on a door mechanism that is opened by a pin in a slot mechanism. I've attached an image. The arm on the right hand side is a body-to-ground revolute, when it turns the pin should move in the slot and the door should...
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I'm working on a transient thermal analysis in workbench. If possible I'd like to automatically find the timestep where the maximum temperature occurs and then select this time step for some post processing. Is there an easy way or a command to do this/
I'm working on a snippet that will...
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I've got a model that is made from beam elements. I've created it from keypoints and then lines. For the first line the nodes at either end are numbered 1 and 2, whereas the nodes in between are numbered 3....n.
I'd rather the nodes were numbered 1,2,...n instead so that it will make...
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I'm wondering if there is a way to find neighbouring or nearest nodes in APDL? I know I can use the NODE(x,y,z) command and that will find the nearest node to the point x,y,z. But I'm wondering if there is a different command that will tell me the numbers of the neighbouring nodes given...
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I was wondering if someone could advise on running ANSYS in batch mode on a 64bit windows PC.
From the help file I've found I need to call the following commands in a command window:
set ANSYS145_PRODUCT=ANE3FL
set ANS_CONSEC=YES
"C:\Program Files\Ansys Inc\V145\ANSYS\bin\winx64...
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I'm working on something that will use a ball screw. I'd hoped to use a lead screw so it couldn't be back driven but this is proving very difficult. So I'm going back to plan A a ball screw but trying to find a brake to stop it being back driven. This would be be to fit on a shaft about...
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I've got a quick question about lead screw efficiencies. I've come across conflicting formulas to calculate the torque requirements for a load to be moved via a lead screw. The project I'm working on has low static and friction forces but high dynamic forces.
This issue seems to be...
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I was wondering if there is a way to parameterise stress linearisation results in ANSYS APDL?
This would be so that I could use an optimisation routine. So could I create a parameter PM into which I then place the maximum membrane stress from my stress classifaction line.
I had thought...
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I'm wondering if it is possible to limit the movement of a node in ANSYS APDL? Without resorting to contact analysis or subroutines.
I'm working on a problem where the component I'm will be displaced, in real life once it reaches a certain point it will come into contact with another...
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I'm wondering if anyone can help. I'd like to carry out a thermal model and then transfer the temperature result to a structural model in workbench. Normally when I do this I use the same geometry for both the thermal and structural model and transfer the temperatures in the normal way...
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Can someone advise me on how to output an array to a text file? The array itself is ~600 x ~700 x 1. Ideally I'd like to output it to a file whilst the data retains it's position, i.e. ~600 columns not 1 column that I then have to go through and manually put back into the original...
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I'm doing an analysis in ANSYS APDL which uses beam elements. Once completed I'd like to get a cosmetic display of the elements. By that I mean I'd like to map onto the elements a realistic image of the thing they're representing. I've used the ESHAPE command before to show the elements...
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I'm trying to run some apdl script in workbench to select and then find the coordinates of the node with the highest stress. This is using an NSORT and then a *GET command. This works for the entire model when it finds the node with the highest stress. The model is made up of 5 different...
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I'm in the process of converting myself from classic to workbench. I'm trying to measure the position of a few points of a model in relation to the origin. The model was created in CAD and then imported into spaceclaim and then workbench, I'm trying to confirm that the geometry has been...
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I was wondering if it is possible to change the mouse buttons that control pan, zoom and rotate when using DMU (Catia V5)?
I'm switching back and forwards between different packages and each has different contols. I saw something online about how to change the buttons but I can't find...
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I'm looking into a cooling problem. Some of the potential solutions require gun drilling (~1.4m deep) through stainless steel. In order to create the cooling channel network the deep drilling will create some dead legs in the system. Is there a standard way of blocking off dead legs...
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I was wondering if it is possible to move the viewpoint when creating an image in Ansys APDL?
I would like to create a series of snap shots of a model as I move the viewpoint position in z and select the field of view.
I've found some documentation of how it's done in Fluent...
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I was wondering if someone could help me witha problem. I've attached an image which shows a volume which is blue, a smaller part of this volume which is shown as a red sphere is generating heat whilst the rest of the volume isn't. Can someone tell me how I can calculate the heat loss...
