{"id":374536,"date":"2024-07-31T15:34:16","date_gmt":"2024-07-31T15:34:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/forums\/reply\/374536\/"},"modified":"2024-07-31T15:34:16","modified_gmt":"2024-07-31T15:34:16","slug":"374536","status":"publish","type":"reply","link":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/forums\/reply\/374536\/","title":{"rendered":"Reply To: importing stress-strain results of analysis 1 as initial condition of analysis 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&lt;p&gt;You could apply the displacement in a command snippet in the second load step which gets each node&#8217;s current location, then uses the D command to set the same displacement.&lt;\/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;As far as using strictly workbench and Mechanical GUI-allowed abilities, &lt;span style=&#8221;font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: &#8216;Times New Roman&#8217;; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; color: black;&#8221;&gt;link Solution cell to Model cell. You will also link an &#8220;External Data&#8221; to the downstream &#8220;Setup cell&#8221;:&lt;\/span&gt;&lt;span style=&#8221;mso-no-proof: yes;&#8221;&gt;&lt;!&#8211;[endif]&#8211;&gt;&lt;\/span&gt;&lt;\/p&gt;&lt;p class=&#8221;MsoNormal&#8221; style=&#8221;margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: normal;&#8221;&gt;&lt;span style=&#8221;font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: &#8216;Times New Roman&#8217;; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; color: black;&#8221;&gt;<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/07\/31-07-2024-1722439437-mceclip0.png\" \/>&lt;\/span&gt;&lt;\/p&gt;&lt;p class=&#8221;MsoNormal&#8221; style=&#8221;margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: normal;&#8221;&gt;&lt;span style=&#8221;font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: &#8216;Times New Roman&#8217;; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; color: black;&#8221;&gt;In the upstream model, you right click on the 3 X, Y, Z normal stresses and 3 XY, YZ, XZ shear stress to &#8220;Export Text File&#8221;:&lt;\/span&gt;&lt;\/p&gt;&lt;p class=&#8221;MsoNormal&#8221; style=&#8221;margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: normal;&#8221;&gt;&lt;span style=&#8221;font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: &#8216;Times New Roman&#8217;; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; color: black;&#8221;&gt;<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/07\/31-07-2024-1722439506-mceclip1.png\" \/>&lt;\/span&gt;&lt;\/p&gt;&lt;p class=&#8221;MsoNormal&#8221; style=&#8221;margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: normal;&#8221;&gt;&lt;span style=&#8221;font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: &#8216;Times New Roman&#8217;; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; color: black;&#8221;&gt;In the External Data system, one file must be marked as Master:&lt;\/span&gt;&lt;\/p&gt;&lt;p class=&#8221;MsoNormal&#8221; style=&#8221;margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: normal;&#8221;&gt;&lt;span style=&#8221;font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: &#8216;Times New Roman&#8217;; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; color: black;&#8221;&gt;<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/07\/31-07-2024-1722439568-mceclip2.png\" \/>&lt;\/span&gt;&lt;\/p&gt;&lt;p class=&#8221;MsoNormal&#8221; style=&#8221;margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: normal;&#8221;&gt;&lt;span style=&#8221;font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: &#8216;Times New Roman&#8217;; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; color: black;&#8221;&gt;Insert an initial stress under the imported load folder in Mechanical. Alternatively, you could have exported strains and inserted an initial strain in Mechanical. You should not use both since this can cause overconstraint.&lt;\/span&gt;&lt;\/p&gt;&lt;p class=&#8221;MsoNormal&#8221; style=&#8221;margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: normal;&#8221;&gt;&lt;span style=&#8221;font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: &#8216;Times New Roman&#8217;; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; color: black;&#8221;&gt;When Solution cell is linked to Model cell to transform deformed geometry, the initial stress import &ldquo;Weighting&rdquo; only accepts &#8220;direct assignment&#8221; import no matter whether &ldquo;Mapping Control&rdquo; is set to &ldquo;Program Controlled&rdquo; or &ldquo;Manual.&rdquo; This matches up data at node IDs, so you must only tag the node Id column and stress value column.&lt;\/span&gt;&lt;\/p&gt;&lt;p class=&#8221;MsoNormal&#8221; style=&#8221;margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: normal;&#8221;&gt;&lt;span style=&#8221;font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: &#8216;Times New Roman&#8217;; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; color: black;&#8221;&gt;<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/07\/31-07-2024-1722439640-mceclip3.png\" \/>&lt;\/span&gt;&lt;\/p&gt;&lt;p class=&#8221;MsoNormal&#8221; style=&#8221;margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: normal;&#8221;&gt;&lt;span style=&#8221;font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: &#8216;Times New Roman&#8217;; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; color: black;&#8221;&gt;(&lt;span style=&#8221;font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: &#8216;Calibri&#8217;,sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: &#8216;Times New Roman&#8217;; color: black; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;&#8221;&gt;When deformed data is transferred through an unlinked method, such as through STL, pmdb, cdb, you will be able to set mapping methods, instead of direct assignment, &lt;\/span&gt;&lt;span style=&#8221;font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: &#8216;Calibri&#8217;,sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; color: black; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;&#8221;&gt;and you must specify the X,Y,Z locations column in the &#8220;External Data.&#8221; &lt;\/span&gt;&lt;\/span&gt;&lt;span style=&#8221;font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; color: black;&#8221;&gt;You will need to use a command snippet to export the 6 stress components at the deformed locations.)&lt;\/span&gt;&lt;\/p&gt;&lt;p class=&#8221;MsoNormal&#8221; style=&#8221;margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: normal;&#8221;&gt;&lt;span style=&#8221;font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: 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