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[michael.lagumina]

Hello,

Is it possible to export an ETABLE to a .txt file with commas separating the values in the columns?

I have a process that provides a table of beam elements along with their corresponding reaction loads broken into 6 categories (Tensile, Shear Y, Shear Z, Bending Y, Bending Z, Torsion).

Mechanical APDL outputs this data without any delimiter between the 6 reaction load columns.  Therefore, some of the reaction loads that have many decimal places run right up to the next column. Are there any Post Commands that can be used to export the data to a .txt file with commas separating the values in the columns?

I don't know what to do after this:

ETABLE,ERASE
ETABLE,Tensile,SMISC,1
ETABLE,SHEAR_Z,SMISC,5
ETABLE,SHEAR_Y,SMISC,6
ETABLE,BEND_Y,SMISC,2
ETABLE,BEND_Z,SMISC,3
ETABLE,TORSN,SMISC,4

 

Thank you,

Mike

 

[Erik Kostson]

 

 

Hi

Few posts in this forum about this. One is:

https://innovationspace.ansys.com/forum/forums/topic/post-processing-output-of-etable-bending-membrane-and-peak-stresses/

Search the forum for more info.

Also if you use a search engine one will get a few posts:

https://www.eng-tips.com/viewthread.cfm?qid=93791

Using the *vget, *vwrite commands:

https://innovationspace.ansys.com/forum/forums/topic/apdl-stress-strain-export-commands-in-workbench-mechanical-data-is-not-available/

Erik