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Subject: Re: *GET,AREA
Author: John Crawford
Date: 1999-01-12 15:50:00I believe that the outer loop is always number 1. At least that's how
it's been when I've played around with this. Loops 2 through N are
internal. I have no idea how their order comes about, other than by the
sequence that the holes are created. Holes are made by Boolean
operations. Of course, we all think it would be cool to make multi-loop
areas. It's been known for some time that this can be done with an
undocumented command. I have clipped the following writeup from the
undocumented commands and secrets section of our AlliedSignal Toolbar.
John Crawford
AlliedSignal Engines
Phoenix, AZ
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* CREATE AREAS WITH HOLES IN THEM
ANSYS has an undocumented command for creating areas with holes in
them.
It's called "allp" and supports up to 4 internal loops and one
external
loop. Here's how to use it.
allp,3,1,3,4,7,11,14,6,8,9
where 3=the number of total loops (one external, two internal) and the
other
numbers are the line numbers in random order, but continuous for each
loop.
This means that loop one would be lines 1,3,4, loop two would be
4,7,11, and
loop 3 would be 14,16,8,9. The listing of the lines can be random
within
each loop, but each loop must be grouped together.
To: 'xansys@o...'
APDL People,
*GET,l1,AREA,a1,LOOP,loop1,LINE,pos1
is documented as returning in l1 the line
number of the line at position pos1 of loop1 of
Area a1.
How do you find out how many loops and then how
many positions each loop has for an area?
Is the outer loop identified in some way? i.e. is it
always loop # 1
Thanks,
Jean-Pierre Dube
0Q64 MCAD Tools and Methods
Nortel Networks
(613) 763-8019
dubejp@n...