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| Our archive contains an assorted list of macros, downloads and tips to assist engineers and analysts. All links to external websites will open in a second browser window. Please let us know if can think of any other useful additions. | ||||
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| Bolt Preload Macro | This macro applies specified preloads to sets of bolts. It works in both the Workbench environment and in the standard ANSYS interface. |
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Customise ANSYS Workbench Legend & Logo settings - this procedure is to modify the default Legend Settings and Logo within ANSYS Workbench. We have created a new button in WB GUI to run a macro that changes these settings. These new settings will set the legend to 16 contour colours (9 by default) and will be located at the bottom of the screen as shown here. To download this macro with IDAC Logo please click here. To download this macro with original ANSYS logo please click here. To find out how you can apply these settings please click here. Alternatively for £49 IDAC can create a personal setup file to customise the look of your ANSYS Workbench with your own company logo. Please contact the sales department for further help and information.
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| Component Creation Macro | If you are an ANSYS user, click here to download a macro (UCMSOLID.MAC) that will automatically create solid model components from individual parts composed of volumes, areas, lines and keypoints. Click here to download the equivalent macro (UCMFE.MAC) to create FE components containing nodes and elements. You can use the macros to check the integrity of your model. |
| UEDLOAD | If you are an ANSYS/LS-DYNA user, you may have come across a limitation in the EDLOAD command when applying pressure loads. Unlike standard ANSYS, where you can select the nodes on the face that you wish to load and then use the SF command, EDLOAD only allows pressures to be defined on the faces of elements (like the SFE command in standard ANSYS). For a free-meshed volume, the element face numbers on the loaded surface will be random, making the EDLOAD commands time-consuming. For a more efficient solution, click here to download the macro UEDLOAD_PRESS_164.MAC that allows you to apply the pressure load to a selected set of nodes, just like the SF command in standard ANSYS. Please read the instructions at the top of the macro listing carefully before use. Also please save this file as UEDLOAD_PRESS_164.MAC |
| IGESOUT | Macro for generating solid bodies in IGES file format directly from finite element meshes (nodes and elements) in ANSYS |
| im21 | Compresses entity numbers then returns the maximum values as parameters for further referencing |
| im60 | Indispensable utility for adding orientation keypoints to lines that are to be subsequently meshed with beam elements |
| im63 | Quickly create a spider between a master node and a selected set of nodes - excellent for pin joints, moment transfers and beam element linking |
| im82 | Avoid the need for repetitive work when creating areas from many closed loops of lines. Particularly useful when you have been supplied line geometry containing many closed loops via CAD or have created closed loops that need to be converted to areas. |
| im94 | Apply a free moment to an area (or group of areas). No need to use beam spiders - just enter the moment magnitude and application area/component. Implements the RBE3 command for you so doesn't stiffen the application surface. |
| view_face | Reorient your screen direction by clicking an area you want to be normal to. |
| itoolbar | A host of ANSYS macro and abbreviation files that can be used to enhance post-processing of many ANSYS elements. Designed for Windows systems. |
| Downloads |
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This download details the newest product version of ANSYS, version 11 for students and teachers of universities, being very informative it's well worth a look. |
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PDFCreator is an application for converting documents into Portable Document Format (PDF) format on Microsoft Windows operating system. Once installed, it allows the user to select PDFCreator as their printer, allowing almost any application to print to PDF. |
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HP15C Classic Calculator Emulation is available for download now. |
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Use *CREATE as a subroutine generator to automate repetitive procedures from an input file. |
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SyncToy v1.0 is available as a free download on the Microsoft Download Center. This easy to use, customizable application helps you copy, move, rename, and delete files between folders and computers. |
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SnagIt Screen Capture v.7.2.5 enables you to capture, edit and share any image or screenshot on your Windows PC. This extremely versatile tool enables you to enhance presentations with captured images or capture error messages to send on to a support team. Click here for a free trial. |
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VRMLview is an award-winning viewer of VRML models. Its ease of use, high speed, impressive functionality and small size make it a popular viewer for VRML models. With VRMLview you can view the following file formats: VRML1.0, VRML2.0, VRML97, 3D Studio (.3ds), OpenFlight (14.2-15.6), Truespace, and AutoCAD DXF (.dxf). To download or for more information please visit http://www.sim.no/products/SIM_VRMLview/download/ |
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Use DesignModeler to produce a better mesh. Click here for further information. |
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Creating geometry or nodes
in ANSYS |
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Automatically load a white
background in the ANSYS Graphics window |
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| If you are an ANSYS user, click here to download a macro (UCMSOLID.MAC) that will automatically create solid model components from individual parts composed of volumes, areas, lines and keypoints. Click here to download the equivalent macro (UCMFE.MAC) to create FE components containing nodes and elements. You can use the macros to check the integrity of your model. |
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Jdisk Report: a utility to look at your hard disk usage in a graphical and list format. |
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Contact Recommendation
alter Default Setting |
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Extremely thorough units
conversion and terminology freeware utility |
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Help file on convergence
and results in DesignSpace and FEA |
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Help file on preparing a model for analysis
using the Analysis Geometry Processor |
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Syntax template for ANSYS macros using Textpad |
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Handy Consistent Units table to download
in word format |
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Simple but effective unit conversion shareware |
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Jscript macro that lets you control displacement
scaling in DesignSpace. Written by Sheldon Imaoka |
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Peter Budgell in Canada has put together some ANSYS Tips and Tricks, click here for further information |
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Download Microsoft’s Calculator Plus – Free of Charge. It allows you to complete many different types of conversions (unit & currency); it also includes all the mathematical functions offered in Microsoft Calculator. |
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Peter Budgell (Burlington, Ontario, Canada) has collected tips and tricks for ANSYS. |
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Our Scandinavian partner, Medeso, gives a technique to create custom plots for display in Workbench. |
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File Folder and Substructure Printer Download |
| Useful links |
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CAE Organisations |
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| Website for the NAFEMS
international engineering analysis association |
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| Home of the Technology Alliance - an internet
site dedicated to CAE professionals |
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| NAFEMS co-ordinated site to promote and
improve analysis in industry |
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ANSYS Related Sites |
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| Excellent "unofficial" ANSYS page filled with useful macros, articles and more |
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| Free ANSYS quartely magazine
for company, product and technical news |
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| ANSYS hosted solutions
to common problems and FAQ's |
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| ANSYS newsgroup populated
by ANSYS users the world over. It's hosted by Yahoo so you will need a (free)
login name |
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| DesignSpace newsgroup populated by DesignSpace
users the world over. It's hosted by Yahoo so you will need a (free) login
name |
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| The IDAC Beam Library enables the ANSYS
user to rapidly create the relevant geometry for any standard British Steel
Structural Beam Section |
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General Resources |
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Is an engineering online
resource that offers thousands of pages of exclusive content created from
scratch by an editorial staff that meets the highest standards in education
and industry experience. |
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Irfanview is a movie player
and an excellent graphics file viewer and converter. It is also free for
non-commercial use. |
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| IMechE provided summaries
of the key world-wide engineering technical papers covering all the core
mechanical disciplines |
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| Ever spent hours working
out heat transfer coefficients from first principles or through extrapolation?
Try this web site instead and look out for the Thermal Wizard |
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| Website offering clear, concise information
on the application of bolted joints |
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| Online catalogue of finite element books
and conference proceedings |
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| Library of the Institution of Mechanical
Engineers. One of the best engineering libraries in the UK |
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| Trial version of the industry standard screen
capture software "SnagIt" from TechSmith. |
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| Excellent text editing software with all
the necessary syntax highlighting, file search and navigation tools required
- and more. |
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| Incorporates the old Matweb site, offering
free and subscription services |
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| ANSYS Class 3 Error Reports |
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When the CMROTATE command is used to define a rotational angular velocity on an element component, the resulting nodal velocities are not transformed correctly for nodes that have a local coordinate system (for example, by the NROTAT command). This may give wrong results, for example, when these nodal velocities are used for computing incremental sliding between contact and target surfaces. As a result, when performing a brake squeal analysis, the eigenfrequencies from the QRDAMP or UNSYM modal analysis are incorrect |
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The results are incorrect for the elbow elements PIPE18 and PIPE60 with no end caps (accessed KEYOPT(8) = 1) and with internal and/or external pressure (applied on faces 1 and/or 5). |
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In static cyclic symmetry with nonuniform loading (CYCOPT,LDSECT fixes only UX when it should also fix UY and sometimes UZ. |
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The use of the SFE command to apply a load vector to MATRIX50 elements (superelements) in Distributed ANSYS may produce incorrect results. |
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Pre-stress modal analyses (ANTYPE,MODAL with PSTRESS,ON) give incorrect results when the contact or target nodes are rotated into a local coordinate system (for example, by NROTATE or DSYM commands). |
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| ERROR NO: 2008-05R1 | ANSYS Class3 Error Report 2006-05 was inadvertently reported as an ANSYS program Class3 error;
however, this error only exists in the CFX product. CFX Class3 Error Report CFX2008-07 has been
issued describing this class3 error and should be referred to for information about the error. |
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| ERROR NO: 2008-06 | If in /POST1 the following steps are taken:
then the resulting data is listed and plotted incorrectly. |
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| ERROR NO: 2008-07 | There are two errors with the /POST1 ETABLE command:
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| ERROR NO: WB2008-01 | When a model with a hydrostatic pressure load is duplicated, the local coordinate system used to define the fluid free surface location of the hydrostatic pressure load does not get updated with the duplicated local coordinate system of the new model. Hence, any changes that you make to the duplicated local coordinate system will not affect the hydrostatic pressure load in the new model, resulting in wrong results being calculated. Click Here For Full Report |
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Synchronous response using the SYNCHRO command in a harmonic (ANTYPE=HARMIC) analysis is incorrect when all of the following conditions are met:
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| ERROR NO: 2008-05 | When using the HBMAT command to dump the contents of the .SUB file created by a substructuring generation pass, the last value of the diagonal locator array written to the .MATRIX file produced by the HBMAT command is incorrect. Click Here For Full Report |
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