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Hello,

I am using transient thermal to simulate a small region of a half sphere heated by a heat flux. I want to see how the surface heats up and so I created a Path and then  I plotted the temperature along the path. That worked well, but the thing is I'd like to be able to animate the temperature rise along the path. I see there is no way to do it in Mechanical, so I thought I could simply export the temperature values along the path for all the time steps and produce the animation in MATLAB.

The problem is that I have to manually update each time step through a process (see the graphics below) before I can then export the data to be analysed and animated externally. There are hundreds of timesteps and so this is not practical. Is there a way to export all of the data along the path or in any form that could be used to do this? I need each time step to be accessible. 

 

Thank you.

 

 

 

 

 

[Aniket]

Have you tried to use the multi-object export extension here: Ansys Store Multi Object ExportV1.1 created by Ansys Inc ?

It also has source code, so you can change it to suit your needs.

You may also want to take a look at https://ansyshelp.ansys.com/account/Secured?returnurl=/Views/Secured/corp/v232/en/act_script/act_script_examples_export_figures.html , https://ansyshelp.ansys.com/account/Secured?returnurl=/Views/Secured/corp/v232/en/act_script/act_script_examples_duplicate_result_object.html and  https://ansyshelp.ansys.com/account/Secured?returnurl=/Views/Secured/corp/v232/en/act_script/act_script_examples_export_result_images.html

-Aniket

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