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/orautomate analyses.
Prerequisite
Introduction to ANSYS Part 1 or 2 course or have equivalent experience.
Duration
1 day
Course Aims:
To be able to:
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