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Subject: Re: Steady State to Transient Thermal, works
Author: chankumar8@
Date: 2000-11-30 18:13:00

Dear Carlos,

Why you go through that trouble of so much macros and undocumented
command for? I do not see any benefit of approach you said. I
advise use TIMINT is much, much easier with restart.

C. Kumar

--- In xansys , "carlos" wrote:
> Chris,
> when you use the LDREAD command the temperatures are read in as BF
loads
> which are structural loads. you need to insert the following code
to change
> those to ICs for use in the thermal transient analysis. with this
> additional code the procedure that you wrote,under the heading: TED
HARRIS
> SUGGESTION (DOESN'T WORK), will work.

> Note, I didn't have time to vectorize this with implied do loops
which is
> the way to go if you work with large models. Also, I believe that
the *get
> of the bf temp is not yet documented.

> *get,numnod,node,,count
> *do,i,1,numnod
> nodnum=ndnext(-1)
> *get,nodtemp,node,nodnum,ntemp
> ic,nodnum,temp,nodtemp
> nsel,u,node,,nodnum
> *enddo

> good luck,
> Carlos

> Carlos Shultz
> PADT
> Phoenix Analysis and Design Technologies
> www.padtinc.com
> 480-813-4884
> 480-813-4807 Fax

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