Reply To: How to apply Element Birth & Death to simulate additive manufacturing?

[Naeel D]

 

Thank you all for the responses. Due to time constraints, learning Ansys Additive/MAPDL codes may be difficult to complete in time. Therefore I have simplified my model (to a quarter of the original model above) and progresses with the following steps/code:

 

My issue now is it will be unrealistic to select each individual volume of ELEMENTS and apply the thermal loads to each one (as the code above implies). That would be a painstaking process! I believe it would be best to use ‘LOOP’ the command, however, I am stuck with how to use this line of code for my situation. Any advice?
Thank you