HELP:Playing and saving animation from ansys

[tangk]

Hi all
I am working on ansys8.0 on solaris platform. I am tryiong to save animation from plotctrls-animate.
When i copy this file and play in windows media player or any other it says invalid file COOD1199 or something. can u tell me how do i save animations and copy them so that they are playabe in windows and other presentations
Thanx

 

[Drej]

If you need a simple animation, you can just type in ANDISP in the command line. This will write (using default values) a windows media-type animation file. This is a non-standard command, but runs a macros called ANDISP.mac. See this file for the correct arguments. Search the:

Program Files > ANSYS v#

directory where this macro is located.

Cheers.



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[tangk]

hirej
I guess i need to be more clear with my question.
I am running ansys8.0 on solaris platform. and saving the animation there. if i copy the file(*.anim) to play in windows its not playing. the animation is a thermal transient analysis with a moving heat source. so kinda big file.
i tried saving it as .avi,.mpeg and .mov and play it in windows but it didnot work out
hope i am clear now
thanks for ur reply

 

[meshparts]

Hi,

I am not sure, but I think I had a similar problem. You could try these:

At the end of your animation, replay it (on your platform). Then try it again on Windows.

If that doesn't work, you should make your animation right from start a *.avi file:

1) first you must write a text file (animation.ans) like these:

time_delay= 0.1 !!! seconds
nres= 100 !!! Number of Results

/seg,delete !!! delete segments
/seg,multi, time_delay !!! start recording
set,first
*do, ii, 1, nres
/replot
set,next
*enddo
/seg,off !!! stop recording
anim,1 !!! play animation. Important !!!

2) second, position your model (zoom, orient) as you like

3) go in /prep1 an plot the temperatures from any time step.

4) read in the animation.ans file:
/input, animation, ans

Hope it works on your platform...

 

[Drej]

Also, if you created a .anim file, you need to play this in the ANSYS "Animation" facility (in windows it is in Start > Programs > ANSYS ## > Utilities > Animate.


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[tangk]

Thanx mihaiupb and Drej.
ur advice has been of great help to me
I appreciate it
Thanx again