{"id":170663,"date":"2023-06-05T07:04:55","date_gmt":"2023-06-05T07:04:55","guid":{"rendered":"\/knowledge\/forums\/topic\/how-to-export-cdb-from-mechanical-without-solving-the-case\/"},"modified":"2023-07-31T12:33:31","modified_gmt":"2023-07-31T12:33:31","slug":"how-to-export-cdb-from-mechanical-without-solving-the-case","status":"publish","type":"topic","link":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/knowledge\/forums\/topic\/how-to-export-cdb-from-mechanical-without-solving-the-case\/","title":{"rendered":"How to export *.cdb from Mechanical without solving the case?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Actually, from Mechanical we can not directly export *.cdb file without solving the case. However, you can try this work around.  &#8212; Insert a command snippet under Analysis Settings. The command to export *.cdb is as following,     \/prep7    cdwrite,all  &#8212; Now, as we are not finishing the \/prep7 module, it will give error and stop the solution. But before that, it would export the *.cdb file in the working directory.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-170663","topic","type-topic","status-publish","hentry","topic-tag-17-2","topic-tag-command-objects","topic-tag-macros-scripting","topic-tag-mechanical","topic-tag-structural-mechanics-macros-command-objects","topic-tag-structural-mechanics"],"aioseo_notices":[],"acf":[],"custom_fields":[{"0":{"_wp_page_template":["default"],"_bbp_last_active_time":["2\/6\/2023 20:20"],"_bbp_forum_id":["27789"],"_bbp_author_ip":["209.182.204.162"],"_btv_view_count":["8520"],"siebel_km_number":["2046063"],"product_version":["17.2"],"km_published_date":["2017-01-06T00:00:00.000Z"],"family":["Structural Mechanics"],"application_name":["Mechanical"],"_bbp_likes_count":["0"]},"test":"articlesansys-com"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/knowledge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics\/170663","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/knowledge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/knowledge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/topic"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/knowledge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics\/170663\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/knowledge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=170663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}