Question – APDL Coding for Multi-Step Moment Loading and Rotation Extraction

[UNI]

1.Assign a Remote Point and link the data of the corresponding edge to Measure_Point through a command.

2. Apply a moment using a tabular input, divided into a total of 10 steps.

3. In Solution → Command (APDL), when applying the moment in 10 steps, write code to extract the rotation angle at each step.

Problem: In this state, the results cannot be viewed in the Result section.

I think there’s an issue in the code—how should I modify it?

[Subodh Adake]

Hi,

Issuing 'SET' command calls the data from rst file which doesn't store the variables. Hence the variable 'Measure_Pilot' will not be recognized by the post command unless you resume the database file first.

I would suggest saving the db file and resuming it in the post command using the APDL command 'resume,,db' in the first line of your code. 

[UNI]

I appreciate the clear explanation and suggestion!