{"id":354427,"date":"2024-02-29T02:16:07","date_gmt":"2024-02-29T02:16:07","guid":{"rendered":"\/forum\/forums\/topic\/additive-mfg-simulations-in-mapdl\/"},"modified":"2024-02-29T02:17:36","modified_gmt":"2024-02-29T02:17:36","slug":"additive-mfg-simulations-in-mapdl","status":"closed","type":"topic","link":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/forums\/topic\/additive-mfg-simulations-in-mapdl\/","title":{"rendered":"Additive Mfg Simulations in MAPDL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hello,<\/p>\n<p>I am currently trying to use MAPDL to run an additive manufacturing simulation. I have a simulation set up in workbench and created the input file from it, then tried to run it in MAPDL and got the error &#8220;The AMTYPE command is not available since Additive Manufacturing. (-AMFG) was not specified for this ANSYS session. Contact your ANSYS support person<em>&#8220;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>On another thread (which has now been closed), an ANSYS employee mentioned that you should be adding &#8220;-amfg&#8221; as an additional command line argument in the &#8220;Solve process settings&#8221; window, but I am still running into the same error. I added the command line, re-exported the input file, and opened it with MAPDL. No luck.<\/p>\n<p>Is there something else I should be checking? It seems like MAPDL doesn&#8217;t know how\/when to use the additive license, and I&#8217;m not sure how to make it do that.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks in advance.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-354427","topic","type-topic","status-closed","hentry","topic-tag-AdditiveManufacturingModule-1","topic-tag-additive-suite","topic-tag-ansys-mapdl-1","topic-tag-mechanical"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t<!-- All in One SEO 4.9.10 - aioseo.com -->\n\t<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Hello,I am currently trying to use MAPDL to run an additive manufacturing simulation. I have a simulation set up in workbench and created the input file from it, then tried to run it in MAPDL and got the error &quot;The AMTYPE command is not available since Additive Manufacturing. 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