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I have searched around for a way to export an ANSYS simulation for easy viewing in virtual reality and have not found anything. What I am trying to do is export a results mesh (deformed), with an applied color gradient and then import that into Unreal Engine. Right now I can only get the deformed mesh imported with no color. Obviously stl files do not support color by default, but apparently it is possible (https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/STL_(file_format)<\/a>). <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Currently what I am thinking will be the easiest solution is to export all the nodes in a certain stress range say 0psi to 10,000psi as an stl file and then color that entire stl in Unreal. I would repeat this for all the other ranges. This would be quite tedious obviously. <\/p>\n <\/p>\n The other solution would be to take in the raw results output file and write a script to easily import that in another file with the correct color gradients applied.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n If anyone has any ideas or solutions to this problem I would love to hear it. Being able to export ANSYS results into VR would certainly be an interesting project! <\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-39345","topic","type-topic","status-closed","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"acf":[],"custom_fields":[{"0":{"_bbp_old_topic_id":["11524"],"_bbp_old_topic_author_name_id":["Anonymous"],"_bbp_old_is_topic_anonymous_id":["false"],"_bbp_old_closed_status_id":["publish"],"_bbp_author_ip":[null],"_bbp_old_sticky_status_id":["normal"],"_bbp_likes_count":["0"],"_btv_view_count":["1647"],"_bbp_subscription":["245497","266911"],"_bbp_topic_status":["unanswered"],"_bbp_status":["publish"],"_bbp_topic_id":["39345"],"_bbp_forum_id":["27791"],"_bbp_engagement":["199","171151","266911"],"_bbp_voice_count":["3"],"_bbp_reply_count":["2"],"_bbp_last_reply_id":["240528"],"_bbp_last_active_id":["240528"],"_bbp_last_active_time":["2022-11-11 16:59:48"]},"test":"jtalier"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics\/39345","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\/39345\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}