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[Asatur]

Hello all,

 

I am a complete novice in APDL. I am comparing the stresses (Transient Thermal + Static Structural) of a larger assembly for multiple geometries of its specific components. So, in order to be able to compare all cases on a unified scale, I need to adjust min and max values of stresses in all contour plots. I tried editing them directly on the contour plots. While the min value can be edited, the max value is not editable.

 

Then, I came up with this post: /Contour Function on Mechanical APDL (ansys.com), which seems to solve my problem. However, I am not sure how to make /Contour work for individual specific bodies and surfaces.

 

Any example or help would be highly appreciated. Thank you for your time.

 

[Erik Kostson]

 

 

Hi

So say we have two parts and added them (elements) into a component (use CM,CMENA,ELEM, and CM,CMTWO,ELEM ) and so we can select them separately via cmsel, then this plots (using /contour) stress results of them separately:

/POST1
SET, LAST
CMSEL,S,CMENA
NSLE
PLNSOL, S,X,
/CONTOUR,,,-11000,100,0
/REPLOT
/RESET
ALLSEL,ALL
CMSEL,S,CMTWO
NSLE
PLNSOL, S,X,
/CONTOUR,,,-12000,100,0
/REPLOT

All the best

Erik

 

 

[Asatur]

 

Hi Erik,

 

Thank you very much for your asnwer. So, if there are more than two objects, should I define them all? In fact, I have 49 objects. Would I need 49 blocks of this piece?