link fortran with ansys

- July 21, 2021 at 7:00 am
  
  vipin123
  Subscriber
  
  how to extract the data like nodal points or any other data through fortran . In simple words how to use fortran coding in ansys apdl.
- July 23, 2021 at 9:48 pm
  
  mrife
  Ansys Employee
  
  Simple words? Please see the following: Ansys Help -> Mechanical APDL -> Programmers Reference -> Part II Guide to User Programmable Features.
  User Programmable Features = UPF. Typically a UPF would be something like implementing a new element type or material model. If you really only need to get a list of nodes and their positions, perhaps saved to a file, then it is much more efficient to do that with APDL than a UPF. Or really most of the FEM data is fairly easy to get via APDL. So the real question is, what do you really want to do?
  Mike
- July 24, 2021 at 1:01 pm
  
  vipin123
  Subscriber
  
  i need to speed up the compilation by using fortran programming language in Ansys. Thats why i need the way to interact with Ansys using fortran.
- July 24, 2021 at 7:28 pm
  
  mrife
  Ansys Employee
  
  Can you explain more by what you mean "...speed up the compilation...". It's not clear exactly what you are doing. The MAPDL Programmers Guide has explanations of all the user routines available.
  Mike
- July 25, 2021 at 4:07 am
  
  vipin123
  Subscriber
  
  The fortran compiler speed is more than the Ansys apdl compiler . Thats why i need to link the fortran with ansys so i compile through fortran compiler which taken less time and we can speed up the compilation