Maxwell One-Way Coupling with Ansys Motion

Maxwell exports transient force to couple with Ansys Motion for acoustic simulation. There are two options to link to Motion software in Maxwell:

• Object-based: provides object based transient force and torque components on selected objects.

• Element-based (surface): provides element-based transient surface node force and mesh.

All forces and mesh are output with full model.

To enable output of Maxwell transient force solutions for link with Ansys Motion:

1. Follow the steps in Export Transient/Harmonic Force from Maxwell to enable transient force output before solving the Maxwell design.

2. After solving, either select Maxwell 2D (or Maxwell 3D) > Export Transient/Harmonic Force, or right-click on the Design in the Project Manager tree and select Export Transient/Harmonic Force to open the Export Transient/Harmonic Force Dialog panel.

   Note: Ansys Motion does not currently support harmonic force.

3. On the General tab:

   • Select Ansys Motion for the Export Type.

   • Specify a Parametric Setup if any (If <None> is selected, only the nominal results will be exported).

   • Select a Solution Setup.

   • Specify the path of the location of output file (the default is the project directory).

     

4. On the Option tab, settings allow you to control collection of data for export to UNV file (and .AMESH and .ANF files if element-based selected). You can choose to include All steps. The Steps from end setting allows you to choose the number of Steps from the end for which data is collected.

   Note: If rotation motion is defined in the project, the input number of steps will be ignored. Instead the last cycle will be the time window.

   Alternatively, you can select a Range of steps, for which you can set a data collection Start step and a data collection End step.

   

5. Click OK to close the window. When you click OK, all the results (nominal or parametric solution) will be exported to the specified folder.