IDEAS has a universal file, does ANSYS have one?

[EngineerDave]

IDEAS has a universal file in which much of the node, element, displacement data can be stored. Does ANSYS have anything of this sort. I have tried to find it, but it seems that node files are stored separately from element files and displacement files.

Has anyone looked into this before?

 

[hvd]

hi dave,

ansys does have a provision to write archive files. you can use it to store all the node, element and load data in a single ascii file. in the GUI the path is :

Main Menu>Preprocessor>Archive Model>Write (for writing)
Main Menu>Preprocessor>Archive Model>Read (for reading)

in command mode CDWRITE and CDREAD can be used. please check your ansys manual for details on how to use these.

hope this serves your purpose
hvd

 

[EngineerDave]

Thanks, I'll take a look at this over the weekend. This may help tremendously as I am trying to write a program that will bring in various data from another source and create nodes, element and displacement info from the data.

IDEAS has this universal file that is a real mess to look at, but will ultimately be workable. I'm going to look to see if the ANSYS file is cleaner.