Who is the course for

This course is designed for people who have already attended the "Introduction to ANSYS Part 1" and "Introduction to ANSYS Part 2 courses" (or who have equivalent experience) and who wish to use APDL to create macros and/or automate analyses. Students should have ideally taken part on the Introduction to ANSYS Part 1 or 2 course or have equivalent experience.

Duration

1 day

Course Aims

• To be able to write macros using ANSYS commands, paramters and/or arrays.
• Use APDL to run a complete analysis.
• Use APDL to automate post processing tasks.
• Create customised output.

Topics covered

• APDL Overview
• Scalar and array parameters and information retrieval from the ANSYS database
• Local and global parameters
• Arrays, string arrays & vector operations
• Forced parameter substitution
• Reading data from external files and writing ANSYS data to external files
• Writing macros, including the use of looping, conditional branching and arguements
• Creating dialog box to prompt user for input data