Reply To: Generation of K file from Ansys Mechanical APDL

[mjmiddle]

I'm not a real expert on this, but it looks like Mechanical MAPDL GUI is no longer the preprocessor for LS-DYNA. The last APDL documenation that mentions these element types is version 19.0, which is a few years ago. The MAPDL product launcher only lets you run LS-DYNA as a solver, which requires an already-made .k file.

This runs a different executable. It never runs the Ansys solver executable, so cannot be used to interpret APDL commands to LS-Dyna commands.

There are some LS-Dyna systems in workbench, the first of which shown below uses workbench Mechanical as a preprocessor:

There is also an LS-Prepost application in the start menu of your operating system if you choose to install it during Ansys installation: