Photo by James Owen on Unsplash A surprisingly popular blog-post written here is Exporting Stiffness Matrix from Ansys . A sensible follow up question is what can one do with the exported stiffness matrix? In a recent Xansys Forum post, a question was raised on how we can edit the stiffness matrix of a superelement and use it for our model. An approach presented below is to first create a superelement that has the same number of DOF and nodal location that will serve as a template. An APDL script can then be written to edit the stiffness matrix entries as desired before exporting to a new superelement *.SUB file for use in future models. The self-contained script below demonstrates this. /prep7 et ,1, 185 mp , ex, 1, 200e3 mp , prxy, 1, 0.33 w = 0.1 ! single element (note nodal locations) n , 1, w, -w, -w n , 2, w, w, -w n , 3, -w, w, -w n , 4, -w, -w, -w n , 5, w, -w, w n , 6, w, w, w n , 7, -w, w, w n , 8, -w, -w, w e , 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 /solu antype , substr ! analy
PADT's script on writing out named selections to a text file in the ACT Console did not work for me when I copied-and-pasted it into the ACT console. Perhaps it was meant to be used with Linux OS? I tweaked the code a little for my Windows 10, Ansys WB 18.1. Here's my take:
a = ExtAPI.DataModel.AnalysisList[0] #Get the first Analysis if multiple are present
workingdir = a.WorkingDir
path = workingdir.split("\\")
#Put the output file in the "user_files" directory for the project.
slashes = '\\'
userdir = slashes.join(path[:len(path)-4])+'\\user_files'
#Use the name of the system in case the snippet is
#used on multiple independent systems in the project.
system_name=a.Name
system_name.replace(' ','_')
model = ExtAPI.DataModel.Project.Model
nsels = model.NamedSelections #Get the list of Named Selections
if nsels:
f = open("%s\\%s_named_selections_checked.txt"%(userdir,system_name), "w")
for child in nsels.Children:
f.write("%s\n"%child.Name)
f.close()
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a = ExtAPI.DataModel.AnalysisList[0] #Get the first Analysis if multiple are present
workingdir = a.WorkingDir
path = workingdir.split("\\")
#Put the output file in the "user_files" directory for the project.
slashes = '\\'
userdir = slashes.join(path[:len(path)-4])+'\\user_files'
#Use the name of the system in case the snippet is
#used on multiple independent systems in the project.
system_name=a.Name
system_name.replace(' ','_')
model = ExtAPI.DataModel.Project.Model
nsels = model.NamedSelections #Get the list of Named Selections
if nsels:
f = open("%s\\%s_named_selections_checked.txt"%(userdir,system_name), "w")
for child in nsels.Children:
f.write("%s\n"%child.Name)
f.close()
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ACT Console: Link
Text List of Named Selection: Link
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