output *get

[maxibonne]

Is it possible to store the results from a *get (*get,xposition,node,i,loc,x) other than use an array? I was thinking of something similar to 'store' which is used to store results using 'nsol'. Does it exist in Ansys?

regards, maxibonne

 

[Drej]

If your node number is 1234 and you need the x-location of this node, you can store in a parameter name of your choice ("XLOC" for example) using:

XLOC=NX(1234)

The "NX" is known as an "enquiry function" within ANSYS. See the *GET command for more details.


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[maxibonne]

Thanks Drej. Can I then ouput all the results stored? My point of doing this is to extract the data. Therefore I need them to be output in the Output File, so that I can copy into a Spreadsheet.

 

[Drej]

You can *VGET all of the nodal locations and store in an array and then output from the array. Try the following for output of all x-location of the nodes:

! ---------- CODE ----------
nall
*get,n_max,NODE,0,NUM,MAX
*dim,n_storage,array,n_max,1
*vget,n_storage,node,1,loc,x ! GET x-loc of all nodes
*cfopen,nodal_data,csv
*vwrite,n_storage(1)
(1(E15.6))
*cfclos
!---------------------------

Do the same for the Y and Z locations but change the syntax in the *VGET command above. Output will be to a file named "nodal_data.csv".



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[jgeren]

This is a way to do it using the *msg command and puts them all in one csv file. Must be input through a file though. *msg does not work in command lines.

*get,nnode,node,0,count
*get,nmin,node,0,num,min
*do,inode,1,nnode,1
*get,xdef,node,nmin,u,x
*get,ydef,node,nmin,u,y
*get,zdef,node,nmin,u,z
*if,inode,eq,1,then
/output,node_def,csv,,append
*msg,,'Node','X Deflection','Y Deflection','Z Deflection',
%C, %C, %C, %C,
/nop
*else
*endif
/output,node_def,csv,,append
*msg,,nmin,xdef,ydef,zdef,
%I, %10.5F, %10.5F, %10.5F, ! FORTRAN FORMAT
nmin=ndnext(nmin)
*enddo
/output
nnode=
nmin=
inode=
xdef=
ydef=
zdef=

 

[maxibonne]

Thanks Drej and jgeren