{"id":285401,"date":"2023-05-23T23:50:21","date_gmt":"2023-05-23T23:50:21","guid":{"rendered":"\/forum\/forums\/topic\/inserting-a-command-in-wb-to-define-nonlinear-orthotropic-material\/"},"modified":"2023-06-02T14:01:32","modified_gmt":"2023-06-02T14:01:32","slug":"inserting-a-command-in-wb-to-define-nonlinear-orthotropic-material","status":"closed","type":"topic","link":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/forums\/topic\/inserting-a-command-in-wb-to-define-nonlinear-orthotropic-material\/","title":{"rendered":"Inserting a command in WB to define nonlinear orthotropic material"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hi there,<\/p>\n<p>I am using ANSYS 2022 R1, and I am not quite familiar with the APDL commands, So I want to ask for help whether i can define ANISO material for a bunch of parts in workbench using APDL command like below.<\/p>\n<p>Step1, I created a named selection (which is called &#8220;column_foundations&#8221;) for all parts needed to be assigned this ANISO material property;<\/p>\n<p>Step2, I inserted a command snippet under the first body and gave the matid a specific name &#8220;nl_foundation&#8221; <span style=\"font-size: 18.6667px\">(as shown in Fig.1).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 18.6667px\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/forum\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/05\/23-05-2023-1684885584-Fig.1.png\" alt=\"\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Step3, I inserted another command under Static structural as below, to define all elements in the named selection (column_foundation) as the &#8220;nl-foundation&#8221; ANISO material; <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/forum\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/05\/23-05-2023-1684885806-Fig 2.png\" alt=\"\"><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Can anyone let me know whether the steps are correct? Any explanations are greatly appreciated.<\/p>\n<p>Eason<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-285401","topic","type-topic","status-closed","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"acf":[],"custom_fields":[{"0":{"_bbp_subscription":["241178","23687","170445"],"_bbp_author_ip":["23.39.172.22"]," _bbp_last_reply_id":["0"]," _bbp_likes_count":["0"],"_btv_view_count":["823"],"_bbp_topic_status":["unanswered"],"_bbp_status":["publish"],"_bbp_topic_id":["285401"],"_bbp_forum_id":["27791"],"_bbp_engagement":["23687","170445","241178"],"_bbp_voice_count":["3"],"_bbp_reply_count":["12"],"_bbp_last_reply_id":["286998"],"_bbp_last_active_id":["286998"],"_bbp_last_active_time":["2023-06-04 03:13:01"]},"test":"gao13mail-ubc-ca"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics\/285401","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/topic"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics\/285401\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=285401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}