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  1. sadegh87

    Picking a random node or element

    Hello Drej, thank you for your help. It helped me so far. I have now written an APDL as follows: *DIM,dtab,ARRAY,100,2 NSEL,S,S,3,-1,0, ,0 *VGET,dtab(1,1),node,,nlist *vfill,dtab(1,2),rand,0,100 So I have selected some Nodes by results and stored their nodenumbers into the first column of the...
  2. sadegh87

    Picking a random node or element

    Hello, I am using Ansys Mechanical and doing some stress simulations. Is there an option to select random nodes or elements? I want to pick for example 10% of all nodes randomly. Thanks for your help. sadegh87
  3. sadegh87

    Integrating Keypoints into a mesh

    Hello Drej, hello lopessilva, thank you for your comments. I tried it the way that you discribed and it works now. I earlier had the illusion, that i can simply create a keypoint somewhere and the forces on this KP will be transferred. Thank you!
  4. sadegh87

    Integrating Keypoints into a mesh

    Hello, i have generated a simple area with the coordinates (0,0),(0,20),(10,20),(10,0) as solid PLANE183. As i have noticed the four corners of this area automatically have each one keypoint. Now if i mesh the area freely and put forces and displacements on these four keypoints, they get...
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