ANSYS 10 MASS 3

[razzesh]

Hi,

I want to find the mass of my model. How to find the mass of the model. Is ther any command available to find the mass of the model?

Regards,

Rajesh.

 

[brokensoul]

razzesh,

If you are in Workbench when you are in the simulation window you can select a peice of geometry in the model tree on the left side of the screen. There should be a frame below the tree that has some information in it... In this frame you can set the geometry material and expand a properties layout that tells you the mass.

If this doesnt help... Go to help and search for mass... it should tell you where to look and it probably has images pointing to where in the window the information can be found.

Hope this helps

BSK

 

[cbrn]

Hi,
previous post is 100% helpful with Workbench so I won't add any about it.
For Classical environment, it's a bit more difficult:
- if you have solid model, then commands like GSUM, VSUM, ASUM should be helpful
- if you have only FE model (i.e. only elements with their nodes), then you can run a Partial Solution where you only calculate the matrices: the mass summary will display in the output window (you can of course redirect it to file with the /OUTPUT command before launching the partial solution).

Hope this helps...

 

[brokensoul]

Thanx for the assist cbrn.
Ansys Classic is not one of my talents.

BSK

 

[razzesh]

Thanks brokensoul and cbrn for your help.I have a FEA model. In previous versions of ANSYS during the analysis the output window will show the mass of the model. In ANSYS10 i dont see the output window during analysis.
I tried to run the partial solution but i dont get the output window.Do i have to change anything in the settings to show the output. I tried but coudnt do it. Any suggestions please.

Thanks

Rajesh.

 

[cbrn]

Hi,
I do assure you that the output in the Output Window still functions in v.10 as in previous ones. Probably you have a setting that either redirects the output to something else (a printer? a file?), or switches it off.
First of all, I'd try the command:

/OUTPUT,

in the Command Line. This will reset the output to the default (to the O.W.).

Regards

 

[meshparts]

Hallo!

I use following to get the total mass of my models after solving:

/solve
irlf,-1 Pre-calculate masses for summary printout only
solve
/post1
*get,totmass,elem,,mtot,x

Regards,
Alex