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No rating yet Subject: Re: Superelement Expansion, STRUC Author: Dan Bohlen Date: 2002-08-19 12:39:00Although your signature is marginal I'll still help. I'd suggest combining individual plots outside of Ansys using something like gifmerge.
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> -----Original Message----- > From: wjkmechsol [mailto:bill.kelly@m...] > Sent: Monday, August 19, 2002 11:08 AM > To: xansys@yahoogroups.com > Subject: [xansys] Superelement Expansion, STRUC
> I am performing a static multi-body sliding contact problem. I have > made each body into a separate superelement to reduce run times. The > multiple load step job runs fine and I can then expand each > superelement at any given time point. Unfortunately, there seems to > be no easy way to create an animation of all the bodies together as > they slide because each body is in a separate database and results > file.
> I realize there are some labor intensive ways to combine databases > and results files together (nread, eread, numoff, dnsol, etc), but > perhaps I'm missing something. It seems to me that multi-body > contact with superelements is standard functionality and it should be > more straightforward.
> It appears that you cannot even create a multiple load step expansion > result file for one particular superelement and animate that over > time. Apparently you have to create a different results file for > each time point and create animations manually with the /seg,multi. > Anyone else dealing with this?