Import Link Elms From ADPL to Workbench

- May 26, 2018 at 6:24 pm
  
  learn13
  Subscriber
  
  Is the above possible? It works fine with beam elements made in Ansys but links appear to cause an issue.
  
  Links are preferred for their ability act in tension or compression for this case.
- May 26, 2018 at 9:58 pm
  
  peteroznewman
  Subscriber
  
  Here are some instructions for using APDL in Workbench.
- May 26, 2018 at 10:23 pm
  
  learn13
  Subscriber
  
  Thank you for the link.
  
  Unfortunately I've been through many of them (except the German video) and although I've had success with beams and solid elements with the Ansys Finite Element Modeler and External Model, link elements remain problematic.
  
  I've attached a adpl .db in case you are willing to give it a go.
- July 2, 2018 at 7:56 pm
  
  jpasquerell
  Ansys Employee
  
  The ANSYS Release 19.1 program's External Model feature can now import a Mechanical APDL cdb file including support of LINK180 elements.