In this static structural example, there are three time steps as we change the forces on the bracket. One could also use this in a thermal, modal, or transient structural with a few changes needed. We begin by creating a Named Selection to define the regions of the model where we are interested in results. Here we have chosen to use a single face as the named selection. One could use a set of faces or edges, vertices, or volumes. Then, we must make sure to set the output to save an mapdl db file to yes. Next, we insert a Commands (APDL) object into the Solutionīelow is the command snippet that we use to export the data. For a structural system in which I am interested in deformations, I typically like to a file format of “X Y Z UX UY UZ” where X, Y, Z are the coordinate locations and UX,UY,UZ are the deformations at each node in the named selection. I typically do not use a file header but one could insert that if desired. The general method below is to load the results from the db file using RESUME. Then, calculate the total number of results sets in the study.
