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October 11, 2023 at 3:08 pm
Govindan Nagappan
Ansys Employee

Hi Mortaza,

You can use sectype and secdata commands.

Check command reference guide for more details:

SECTYPE (ansys.com)

SECDATA (ansys.com)

Example:

sectype,3,shell  
secdata,0.2,2,45                            ! thickness, material, theta
secoff,top

You can use emod to modify the esys

emod,1,esys,13    

 

VM82 has layered elements, but this example there is no modification to ESYS - VM82 (ansys.com)

 

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