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[sohrab]

Hi everyone,

i have dozens of developed codes in text and i want to run every code . how can i set APDL in such a way that starts from one code finish it and then start anaother code to analyze till end . it would hugely saves my time.

 

thank you in advance for your replies and comments

 

[jj77]

 

Never done this, but should be perhaps possible. See these two very good posts on how to do something like that.

 

In your case instead of running different parameters you do a *do loop that takes entries from a string array that contains all the mapdl macros/scripts file names.

http://www.padtinc.com/blog/tag/batch

 

On how to create such an array see below:

http://www.padtinc.com/blog/the-focus/manipulating-text-strings-in-ansys-mechanical-apdl

[sohrab]

Thank you @jj77 for your reply.

i wrote a script as below

fini
/clear

*dim,ANNUM,string,80,17      
ANTAG(1,1) = ‘AN1_SC’
ANTAG(1,2)=’AN1_DC’
ANTAG(1,3) = ‘AN2_SC’
ANTAG(1,4)=’AN2_DC’
ANTAG(1,5) = ‘AN3_SC’
ANTAG(1,6) = ‘AN4_SC’
ANTAG(1,7)=’AN4_DC’
ANTAG(1, = ‘AN5_SC’
ANTAG(1,9)=’AN5_DC’
ANTAG(1,10) = ‘AN6_SC’
ANTAG(1,11)=’AN6_DC’
ANTAG(1,12) = ‘AN7_SC’
ANTAG(1,13)=’AN7_DC’
ANTAG(1,14) = ‘AN8_SC’
ANTAG(1,15)=’AN8_DC’
ANTAG(1,16) = ‘AN9_SC’
ANTAG(1,17)=’AN9_DC’

!/INQUIRE,dir_,DIRECTORY

*do,I,1,17
*cfopen,%ANTAG(1,i)% ,mac
dirnam='%ANTAG(1,i)% '
*cfclose
/input,%ANTAG(1,i)%,mac
*enddo

but i get error (unknown expression in input file)

 

 

 

[jj77]

As I said I have not done this myself. One thing I can see in the code though is that the array is called ANNUM, but then ANTAG is used (should be ANNUM I think). But I think it will not work still. I will have a look and see how one can add strings to an array.

[jj77]

this works:

*dim,ANTAG,CHAR,17

ANTAG(1,1) ='AN1_SC'

ANTAG(2,1) ='AN1_DC'

and so on

 

Have in mind that CHAR are upto 8 characters long, but that is OK for you now.

 

This should also work

size=17 

*dim,mytext,char,size 

mytext(1)='hi'

mytext(2)='hiagain'

 

[sohrab]

thanks jj77 for the reply.i tried your code and still get the same error. 

i copy and paste the script to the command bar in APDL, is it a correct approach? 

[jj77]

Not sure which part is not working. If we take the array part first, then take this and paste it in to the apdl command window on the top, that works.

*dim,ANTAG,CHAR,17

ANTAG(1,1) ='AN1_SC'

ANTAG(2,1) ='AN1_DC'

To see the values one can set a scalar s1=ANTAG(1,1) and look at s1.

See below:

If you mean that the whole script (running batch mode) does not work then I do not know why.

[sohrab]

your help is highly appreciated.

[jj77]

No worries, let us know if the script is not working and you can run batch and perhaps someone can help more (I will have a look also tomorrow when I have some more time)

[jj77]

There might be an easier option as described in help:

 

also this might be of help

 

https://www.eng-tips.com/viewthread.cfm?qid=277708

 

also this post from Peter is very good:

/forum/forums/topic/need-help-on-creating-the-script-file-for-launching-ansys-mechanical-job/

[sohrab]

Thnak you very much jj77 for your help it was useful. I appreciate it.