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[nwood99]

Hello,

I am trying to implement a load using APDL's function editor. The function itself depends on values that are called from tables. See the belowimage for an example of what I'm talking about.

[Vigneswaran Sridharan]

Hi I suggest you some reference documents to check your function.
https://ansyshelp.ansys.com/account/Secured?returnurl=/Views/Secured/corp/v212/en/ans_bas/Hlp_G_BASFUNCED.html
https://ansyshelp.ansys.com/account/Secured?returnurl=/Views/Secured/corp/v212/en/ans_bas/Hlp_G_BAS2_6.html%23apoQxq21cmcm- command reference for syntax
Hope this helps.
Vigneswaran

[nwood99]

After reviewing the documentation, I'm still not sure how to accomplish my objective. The documentation states that tabular parameters are normally called by enclosing their name in % signs. For example, defining a load with %NAME% indicates that the load has been assigned a table, as opposed to defining the load with NAME, which indicates the load has been assigned some constant value. As demonstrated in my original post, this doesn't work when defining variables in the function editor. %NAME% is still interpreted by the function editor as an equation variable, and so when you load the function file, ANSYS incorrectly demands a constant value for the equation variable "%NAME%." Distinguishing tabular parameters according to the documentation doesn't work here. I'm not sure how else to do it.

[dinhan0394]

Hello You can only use variables in list of the function editor, all other parameters will be constant.

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