Showing Exploded Mesh

[Stringmaker]

I've seen several places inside of the Ansys documentation where a mesh is shown with an exploded view of the elements so that you can see what the internal elements look like. Is there a command in Ansys that will do this? I searched through the documentation and couldn't find anything on this. Can anyone here shine some light on this?

Thanks,
-Brian

 

[Drej]

There isn't an option to show an exploded view, but you can shrink the elements to allow you to see internals (see the /shrink command) -- it really depends on the shape of the mesh you're trying to see, but there are many ways to try and achieve this. Let's assume you have a square block, which has been meshed by meshing a volume, and you want to view the elements at the interior (internal to the outer layer of elements that is). You can use:

vsel,s,p   ! pick the volume
nslv,s,0   ! select the internal nodes to the volume
esln       ! select the elements based on those nodes

Otherwise try:

asel,s,p   ! pick the areas of the block
esla,s     ! select the elements based on picked areas
esel,inve  ! invert the selection

Or:

asel,s,p  
nsla,u
esln,s

etc. etc.


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[Stringmaker]

Thanks Drej! I'll give this a shot.