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[alexandre.gomes]

Hi,

I am trying to apply Thermal load using the command BF, Node.

I have a number of csv files, with two columns, column 1 is the node number and column 2 is the temperature.

I intend to import and read the tables using the following commands:

/Inquire, nLinFil, Lines, C:\xxxx\yyyy.csv

*dim, yyyy, Table, nLinFil, 1, 1

*TRead, yyyy,      C:\xxxx\xxxx.csv

Normally i create a component that includes the nodes but in this case i would like to apply a different temperature value to each node (110000 nodes in total).

Is there a way to do this? 

 

Thank you!

[mrife]

Hi Alex1EDP

Yes, see the publically available Mechanical APDL help here.  Essentially when defining the load instead of a value the table name is substituted and is enclosed in % characters.  Mike

[dlooman]

In this case, the *dim command would be *dim,yyyy,Table,110000,,,NODE  The primary variable NODE indicates that column zero of the table (column 1 of your csv file) are node numbers.  Then as Mike says, you input the table array by entering it in quotes:  BF,ALL,TEMP,%yyyy%