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Thank you, Sayuri! Where should I list these commands? In the ANSYS Workbench Mechanical application, I can add commands under Steady-State Thermal, but it says they will only run prior to the SOLVE command.

Hi Everyone, I am using ANSYS Mechanical (Workbench) version 13.0. I have a radiation solution that tells me the heat flux over a surface. I need to integrate all of the nodal solutions on that surface in order to determine the total heat transfer passing through it. I have tried...

I believe SPCTEMP allows you to specify the "free space ambient temp" near a surface. I don't really have ambient temps though because I'm modeling parts in a vacuum, so the parts themselves have temperatures associated with them, but there is no true ambient (air) temperature

For those who come across this problem here's the solution: The error is caused when you select a line that borders an edge, hence not resulting in a split. Only lines need to be selected, not vertices, and only those lines that result in splits of the face. "Glueing" is not required if you...

Also, how do I "glue" the split faces back together once I'm ready to?

All right, I was able to selected the sketch lines, I simply had to toggle the lines button next to vertices. After selecting my rectangle and clicking generate, a yellow check is produced next to the face split and there is a warning that says "Warning: At least one tool geometry...

OK, I see there is greater flexibility in "splitting" faces. However, once you have a sketch, how do you select it after initiating the split command? Whether "by point and edges" or "by location" the cursor will not snap to the corners or lines of a rectangle I have produced.

How is splitting different from slicing? I have used slicing in the past to cut parts and glue them back together.

I am using the Workbench/Mechanical, Steady-State Thermal application. Thanks,

Hi guys, I'm trying to solve a surface to surface radiation problem where I have a part with a constant emissivity, and I'm trying to find its temperature once it is at equilibrium with its enclosure. It is assumed perfectly isolated from conduction, and in a vacuum, so radiation is its only...

I'm trying to figure out a way to define a load or boundary condition on an area of a body or face. In Ansys Workbench/Mechanical it seems that you can only select an entire face, but I frequently have to define a load or BC on a select area of a face. Is there a way to do this? As a...

I had this same problem a few months ago. Under Analysis Settings/Analysis Data Management change "Save MAPDL db" to "Yes". Then open the *.db file in ANSYS APDL and list the nodes

Hi Everyone, I'm still on the same issue of outputting heat flux to an MAPDL file. I need to integrate the heat fluxes over a cross sectional area in order to solve for the total amount of heat entering a system. I don't think there is a way to do this in ANSYS Mechanical, so I assume I...

Here's the image, attached http://files.engineering.com/getfile.aspx?folder=a96313e5-3fc7-473a-abb2-79edd12c1a04&file=outres.gif

I inserted the outres command into both the solution setup and results (see image) but I still receive the same error when trying to read heat flux data from the *.db file.

Does anyone know how to output the heat fluxes in a steady-state thermal solution to a MAPDL file?

Chris, I am working on a new steady state thermal analysis that I plan to try the named selections on. However, more pressing is that it will only output the temperature solutions and not the heat fluxes. In APDL I'm given the option to print X, Y, Z, or Vector sum but come up with this error...

Chris, Just to elaborate a little more, the way I am approaching these problems is to import a Solidworks model into Workbench, solve, then output and use the APDL for post processing. The issue I'm running into is that since I created the model in Solidworks, there are no defined lines or...

Is there no way to define a coordinate system without having it defined by the global axes, or a part of the model geometry? I'm trying to model gravity at 45 degrees to the global coordinate system, and I have no model geometry that will express this. On other parts if you choose to define...

After working through a couple tutorials and poking around I was able to list the results for the nodes and generate a curve for the window. Perfect! When using PlotCtrls>Numbering>Node numbers, many of nodes have overlapping (superimposed) numbers and were illegible. Luckily, my line of...