Exporting ANSYS Results for visualization in Virtual Reality

- December 3, 2019 at 5:46 am
  
  jtalier
  Subscriber
  
  Hi there,
  
  I have searched around for a way to export an ANSYS simulation for easy viewing in virtual reality and have not found anything. What I am trying to do is export a results mesh (deformed), with an applied color gradient and then import that into Unreal Engine. Right now I can only get the deformed mesh imported with no color. Obviously stl files do not support color by default, but apparently it is possible (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STL_(file_format)).
  
  Currently what I am thinking will be the easiest solution is to export all the nodes in a certain stress range say 0psi to 10,000psi as an stl file and then color that entire stl in Unreal. I would repeat this for all the other ranges. This would be quite tedious obviously.
  
  The other solution would be to take in the raw results output file and write a script to easily import that in another file with the correct color gradients applied.
  
  If anyone has any ideas or solutions to this problem I would love to hear it. Being able to export ANSYS results into VR would certainly be an interesting project!
- December 3, 2019 at 1:58 pm
  
  Rob
  Forum Moderator
  
  In Fluent we can also export VRML (coloured stl), not sure whether CFD Post and Mechanical support those exports without looking: let us know what you find when you try.
  - November 11, 2022 at 4:59 pm
    
    Osama Maddani
    Subscriber
    
    how to export fluent pathlines as VRML? only the mesh is exported when I tried but not the velocity pathlines