{"id":394145,"date":"2024-11-18T00:23:32","date_gmt":"2024-11-18T00:23:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/forums\/reply\/394145\/"},"modified":"2024-11-18T00:23:32","modified_gmt":"2024-11-18T00:23:32","slug":"394145","status":"publish","type":"reply","link":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/forums\/reply\/394145\/","title":{"rendered":"Reply To: Taking Static Structural Total Deformation Result to Fluent"},"content":{"rendered":"

<p>Thank you for the links, however, they weren’t what I needed. To be fair, I needed to reword the original question. I was able to find a workaround (really a “trick”) with named selections.<\/p><p>So:<\/p><p>1) Prior to solving the model, define a named selection that is based on surfaces<\/strong>.<br>2) Solve the model.<br>3) Click “Solution (A6)” and towards the top right corner of Mechanical, press the “Worksheet” button.<br>4) In the worksheet, press the “Solver Component Names” radio button.<br>5) Right-click the named selection defined during (1), drop-down appears<\/em>, left-click “Create Total Deformation Result.” A new Total Deformation Results appears under the solution of Static Structural<\/em> <br>6) Left-click the newly created Total Deformation Result and change the “Scoping Method” from “Geometry Selection” to “Named Selection”.<br>7) Retrieve the result.<br>8) “Export as STL” the newly retrieved result.<\/p><p><\/p><p>Step (6) above was the key. <br>That one baffled me, because in the worksheet, the result was created based on the surface-based named selection<\/strong>.<br>I tried this with second-order elements and it seems to work (Tri6’s get split into four Tri3’s, that’s all).<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-394145","reply","type-reply","status-publish","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t