{"id":284822,"date":"2023-05-19T07:53:31","date_gmt":"2023-05-19T07:53:31","guid":{"rendered":"\/forum\/forums\/topic\/post1-troble-wtith-ansys-workbench-thermal-transient\/"},"modified":"2023-05-26T15:24:03","modified_gmt":"2023-05-26T15:24:03","slug":"post1-troble-wtith-ansys-workbench-thermal-transient","status":"closed","type":"topic","link":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/forums\/topic\/post1-troble-wtith-ansys-workbench-thermal-transient\/","title":{"rendered":"\/post1 trouble wtith Ansys Workbench thermal transient"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hello together,<\/p>\n

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I’m working on an FDM AM simulation and got some troubles with the postprocessing.<\/span><\/p>\n

The simulation with ekill and alive is working just fine. I’m trying to plot the thermal flux at the contact surface and the thermal contact conductance via APDL snippet<\/span>:<\/span><\/p>\n

!   Commands inserted into this file will be executed immediately after the ANSYS \/POST1 command.<\/p>\n

!   Active UNIT system in Workbench when this object was created:  Metric (m, kg, N, s, V, A)
!   NOTE:  Any data that requires units (such as mass) is assumed to be in the consistent solver unit system.
!   See Solving Units in the help system for more information.
!
step_nr=ARG1 ! here ARG1 = 1 the first load step
!
set,step_nr
*stat
esel,s,type,,mycid !
! set colors for white background
\/RGB, INDEX,100,100,100, 0
\/RGB, INDEX,80,80,80, 13
\/RGB, INDEX,60,60,60, 14
\/RGB, INDEX,0,0,0, 0
!
\/show,png
\/view,1,1,1,1
ples,cont,flux ! plot heat flux through contact elements
etable,tcc_i,nmisc,94
!
plet,tcc_i,1
allsel
!
! plot 1 = thermal flux at the contact surface
! plot 2 = applied thermal contact conductance<\/p>\n

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The problem is that the deactivated elements are covering the print bed contact with the extruded material.  In the picture, you can see the print bed (big cuboid) and the extruded material (small cuboid). Is there a way to fade out the extruded part to reveal the contact area?<\/span><\/p>\n

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With best regards<\/span><\/p>\n

John M.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-284822","topic","type-topic","status-closed","hentry","topic-tag-post1-1","topic-tag-result-postprocessing"],"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\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t