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Subject: Re: QUERY-
Author: Bhruguraj Zala
Date: 2002-10-17 03:27:00

Bhusan,
What Terence and Frankland say is correct. You can write a small C or fortran
program which will read the heights and than out put it in
k,1,x1,y1,z1
k,2,x2,y2,z2

This format. Store this in a file with .mac extension and read this macro from
"execute macro" command
B.ZALA
Indian Register Of Shipping,
Powai, Mumbai.
Phone : 91-022-5703627
email:zala@i...

Terence Frankland wrote:
What Fern says about APDL is good but as an alternative you can produce an input
file with the keypoint locations as a series of "k" commands (look it up). The
file contents will be something like:
k,1,x1,y1,z1
k,2,x2,y2,z2

where x1,y1,z1 can be either your numerical coordinate values (most likely) or
parametric values. This is the easy way but sooner or later you are going to
have to familiarize yourself with APDL, so don't ignore it!

BTW, please use more informative titles in any future emails to this group
(don't change it for the current thread).

Terry Frankland
Elliott Company

"Fernand A. Thomassy" on 10/16/2002 07:20:43 PM

To: xansys@yahoogroups.com
cc: (bcc: Terence Frankland/elliott)

I'm in a good mood today so I'll not say RTFM. I will say that this is really
easy for a user with modest experience in using APDL (which is well documented
in the manual if you would care to read it). Look into using tables (you can
read about them in the manual . . . hint, *DIM, *TREAD and maybe the Index or
Subject search . . . in, you guessed it, the maunal).

Happy studying . . . Fern

Fernand A. Thomassy, P.E.
Principal Engineer
Southwest Research Institute
Engine Design Section

----- Original Message -----

> I am beginning to model generalised roughness on a surface.
> For that I have values of the z-coordinates or the heights if i
> may say so,
> of about 3000 points representing a rough surface. I am thinking
> of making
> those different heights as key points in ANSYS so that I can join
> them to
> generate a surface in the ANSYS.
> First of all how is it possible to enter such a large number of
> data points
> directly in ANSYS so that I don't have to enter each point
> manually (if
> possible). I have currently a data file having all the z-
> coordinates of the
> 3000+ data points. I am using ANSYS 6.1 on windows XP.
> please reply.
> thanks

> Gaurav Bhushan Agrawal
> Graduate Research Associate,
> Department of Mechanical Engineering,
> 2153,Robinson Laboratory,
> 206, W. 18th avenue,
> The Ohio State University.
> 614-292-4825 (O)
> 614-294-7949 (r)
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