*GET Command

[civicmadness]

Hi,
I"m doing minimising deflection of a central hole in plate using ANSYS. To do optimisation, how do I use the *GET command to retrieve a value and store it as a scalar parameter? The value I want to retrieve is the deflection in the Z direction ie the deflection at the central hole.

 

[Drej]

You don't have to use *get structure always (*GET, Par, Entity, ENTNUM, Item1, IT1NUM, Item2, IT2NUM), sometimes you can directly obtain the parameter values. The convention is:

parameter_name=parameter_to_get(entity_number)

For deflection it is possible to *get the parameter "directly" i.e.

my_deflection_ux=ux(node_number)

Remember to go into /post1 and open the results file/step etc. before issuing this command.

Cheers,

-- drej --