How to operate more than one paths?

[Lirock]

Hello everyone:
We know that there is only one path can be operated at a time. How can I plot items of two paths on one graph?

 

[Stringmaker]

This is a very good question. When trying to multi-plot say material properties Ansys seems to only let you plot one parameter at a time unlike when plotting entities. Both the /GYTPE and /GRTYP commands in the documentation make mention of multiple graph plots so long as the x-axis for each remains the same. I can't get it work work either. Anyone else had past success trying to do this?

 

[meshparts]

Hello,

my first thought is to set the display to "no redraw". But then you can not change the view and look at the plot from another direction...

Alex

 

[Lirock]

I thought it could be work like this: store the items' data in some arrays. And then plot them on the graph.But I don't know how. Is there anyone who knows a way?

 

[Drej]

Try writing the path data to an array using the PAGET command, then plotting the array using *VPLOT. You don't always get a nice plot from this, so you may need to adjust some of the plot settings. You can always write the array to a text file and then plot in excel using:

*CFOPEN,plot_file,txt
*VWRITE,<array variable 1>,<array variable 2>,<array variable 3>
%g %g %g
*CFCLOS

The "%g" is a generic write descriptor, see the help file for other types.


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